Christmas Poems: Wendy Cope - Hardcover

Cope, Wendy

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 0571338585 ISBN 13: 9780571338580

Publisher: Faber & Faber, 2017

Synopsis

For more than thirty years Wendy Cope has been one of the nation's most popular and respected poets. Christmas Poems collects together her best festive poems, including anthology favourites such as 'The Christmas Life', together with new and previously unpublished work. Cope celebrates the joyful aspects of the season but doesn't overlook the problems and sadness it can bring. With lively illustrations to accompany the words, it is a book to enjoy this Christmas and in years to come.

With illustrations by Michael Kirkham.

About this title

Book Description:

Gorgeously illustrated gift edition of festive poems by one of our nation's best-loved poets

About the Author:

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, Anecdotal Evidence, in 2018. 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 1979-2006 was published in 2008.

About this edition

• Publisher: Faber & Faber
• Publication date: 2017
• ISBN 10: 0571338585
• ISBN 13: 9780571338580
• Binding: Hardcover
• Number of pages: 48