Making Cocoa for Kingsley Amis (Signed, 1986)

Cope, Wendy

ISBN 10: 0571137474 / ISBN 13: 9780571137473

Published by Faber, UK, 1986

About this Item

Signed and dedicated on title page by the author. An excellent copy, clean and unmarked throughout with no notable signs of wear, and just some minor bumps around outer edges from ordinary shelving and storage. Why on Amazon do most sellers not describe their actual book? Buy with confidence and support a genuine Independent Bricks & Mortar Real Bookshop. We are Maynard & Bradley CAMBO & PBFA(now lapsed) members here in Leicester City Centre. Size: 130 x 200 mm. 69. Quantity Available: 1. Shipped Weight: Under 500 grams. Category: Poetry; Britain/UK; Modern; ISBN: 0571137474. ISBN/EAN: 9780571137473. Inventory No: 43642.

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Bibliographic Details

• Title: Making Cocoa for Kingsley Amis (Signed, 1986)
• Publisher: Faber, UK
• Publication Date: 1986
• ISBN 10: 0571137474
• ISBN 13: 9780571137473
• Binding: Softcover
• Edition: 1986.
• Condition: As New
• Signed: Signed by Author(s)
• Seller catalogs:
  • Poetry

About this title

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.