Making Cocoa for Kingsley Amis. First Edition. Signed by Author

Cope, Wendy

ISBN 10: 0571137474 / ISBN 13: 9780571137473

Published by London. Faber & Faber, 1986

About this Item

London. Faber & Faber. 1986. First Edition. No later dates shown. Soft Covers. Publisher's decorated wraps with bordered box containing vignette and titles. Touch of sunning to spine. Sharp corners, no spine wear. Text block is pristine although evenly toned. Signed by the author on the title page in bordered box. When Making Cocoa for Kingsley Amis was first published, it catapulted its author into the bestseller lists and established her as one of our funniest and most eloquent of poets. Parodies of William Wordsworth, T.S. Eliot, and Emily Dickinson, and humorous sonnets, haiku, and love poems.

Seller Inventory # 03JUN.22001

Bibliographic Details

• Title: Making Cocoa for Kingsley Amis. First Edition. Signed by Author
• Publisher: London. Faber & Faber
• Publication Date: 1986
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 0571137474
• ISBN 13: 9780571137473
• Binding: Soft cover
• Edition: 1st Edition
• Condition: Near Fine
• Signed: Signed by Author(s)
• Seller catalogs:
  • poetry, literature, single author, signed

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Synopsis

When Making Cocoa for Kingsley Amis was first published, it catapulted its author into the bestseller lists and established her as one of our funniest and most eloquent of poets.

'Cope has an extraordinary canny sense - quite rare among poets - of what will engage a reader's attention.' Poetry Review

'A jet-age Tennyson.' London Review of Books

'Like Larkin and Harrison, Cope has proven that a popular poetry is possible without compromising quality.' Acumen Series

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. The Orange and other poems was published in 2023, followed by her Collected Poems in 2024.