Serious Concerns
Published on 5. September 2019
Book
Hardback
96 pages
978-0-571-35233-3 (ISBN)
Description
Wendy Cope's first book of poems and parodies, Making Cocoa for Kingsley Amis, went straight into the bestseller lists. Its successor, Serious Concerns has proved even more popular, addressing such topics as 'Bloody Men', 'Men and Their Boring Arguments', 'Two Cures for Love', 'Kindness to Animals' and 'Tumps' (Typically Useless Male Poets).
This beautifully designed edition forms part of a series of ten titles celebrating Faber's publishing over the decades.
This beautifully designed edition forms part of a series of ten titles celebrating Faber's publishing over the decades.
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Edition
Main
Language
English
Place of publication
London
United Kingdom
Dimensions
Height: 205 mm
Width: 134 mm
Thickness: 15 mm
Weight
188 gr
ISBN-13
978-0-571-35233-3 (9780571352333)
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Wendy Cope was born in Erith, Kent. After university she worked for fifteen years as a primary-school teacher in London. Her first collection of poems, Making Cocoa for Kingsley Amis, was published in 1986 and her most recent, Family Values, in 2011. In 1987 she received a Cholmondeley Award for poetry and in 1995 the American Academy of Arts and Letters Michael Braude Award. Two Cures for Love: Selected Poems was published in 2008.