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

Cope, Wendy

ISBN 10: 0571137474 / ISBN 13: 9780571137473

Edité par London. Faber & Faber, 1986

A propos de cet article

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.

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Détails bibliographiques

• Titre: Making Cocoa for Kingsley Amis. First Edition. Signed by Author
• Éditeur: London. Faber & Faber
• Date de parution: 1986
• Langue: anglais
• ISBN à 10 chiffres: 0571137474
• ISBN à 13 chiffres: 9780571137473
• Reliure: Soft cover
• Édition: 1st Edition
• État de l'article: Near Fine
• Signé: Signed by Author(s)
• Catalogues du vendeur:
  • poetry, literature, single author, signed

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Synopsis

"Offers parodies of William Wordsworth, T.S. Eliot, and Emily Dickinson, and humorous sonnets, haiku, and love poems."

À propos de l?auteur

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.