Wendy Cope

Poet

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Gender	Female
Age	79
Date of birth	July 21,1945
Zodiac sign	Cancer
Born	Erith
	United Kingdom
Spouse	Lachlan Mackinnon
Periods	1980–present
Job	Poet
Education	University of Oxford
	St Hilda's College
	West Lodge Preparatory School
	Sidcup
	Chislehurst
	Kent
Awards	Cholmondeley Award
	Michael Braude Award for Light Verse
Notabl award	Cholmondeley Award
	American Academy of Arts and Letters
	Michael Braude Award for Light Verse
Notabl work	Making Cocoa for Kingsley Amis; Serious Concerns
Date of Reg.	2019-02-15 11:22:16
Date of Upd.	2023-06-12 16:56:07
ID	420658

Making cocoa for Kingsley Amis
Two Cures for Love
Serious concerns
If I don't know
Anecdotal Evidence
The Funny Side
Twiddling Your Thumbs
Life, Love and The Archers: Recollections, Reviews and Other Prose
The river girl
Christmas Poems
Family Values
Going for a Drive
Time for School
The Faber Book of Bedtime Stories
Is that the New Moon? Poems by Women Poets
The Big Orchard Book of Funny Poems
Does She Like Word-games?
Faber Voices: Wendy Cope: (Fixed Format Layout)
Wendy Cope: Reading from Her Poems
Spared: Satb Divisi, Choral Octavo
The Bridport Prize: Poetry and Short Stories, 1995
An International Christmas: Seasonal Stories and Poems from Canada and Around the World

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Wendy Cope Life story

Wendy Cope OBE is a contemporary English poet. She read history at St Hilda's College, Oxford. She now lives in Ely, Cambridgeshire, with her husband, the poet Lachlan Mackinnon.

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Feb 16,2020 2:57 am

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