Wendy Mary Cope
Poet
Cope’s first volume of poetry, Making Cocoa for Kingsley Amis was published in 1986 and her third volume If I Don’t Know was shortlisted for the Whitbread Poetry Award in 2001. She was made an OBE in 2010 and her most recent collection was Family Values (2011).
There’s far too much encouragement for poets —From ‘Engineers’ Corner’ in Making Cocoa for Kingsley Amis (London: Faber & Faber, 1986)
That’s why this country’s going down the drain.
And that orange, it made me so happy,From ‘The Orange’ in Two Cures for Love: Selected Poems 1979-2006 (London: Faber & Faber, 2008)
As ordinary things often do
Just lately. The shopping. A walk in the park.
Wendy Mary Cope
by Madeleine Waller
C-type colour print, 5 July 2006
NPG x131828
© Madeleine Waller / National Portrait Gallery, London
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