{"product_id":"cope-wendy-collected-poems-hb","title":"Cope, Wendy: Collected Poems (HB)","description":"\u003cp\u003eFaber \u0026amp; Faber, hardcover\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003ePublication Date: August 5, 2025\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003ePublisher Marketing:\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eThis volume comprises the full poetic works of one of England's wittiest, most beloved writers, and includes many previously uncollected poems.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eWhen Making Cocoa for Kingsley Amis was published in 1986, Wendy Cope became that rarest of creatures: a celebrated poet who was also a best-seller. Her artful combination of insight and wit made an extraordinary impact in poems that cocked a gentle snook at the pomposity of a literary world hitherto dominated by men.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eThrough four further collections, Cope has continued to delight her readers while finding a whole new generation of enthusiasts through her poem \"The Orange\". Together these poems catalogue the desires and fears that underlie our ordinary existences - love and heartbreak, disappointment and a hard-won capacity to find happiness, even if only in the form of a poem. In their profound attention to and encapsulation of the everyday, these poems serve to make our own lives the more remarkable and memorable. Collected Poems celebrates a lifetime's achievement by a poet who has been original and distinctive from the very start, and provides the perfect accompaniment to the trials, tribulations and joys of our all too human lives.\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Open Books: A Poem Emporium","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":45822615388183,"sku":"9780571383252","price":35.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0004\/6497\/7956\/files\/712ObuxvFTL._SL1500.jpg?v=1792696425","url":"https:\/\/open-books-a-poem-emporium.myshopify.com\/products\/cope-wendy-collected-poems-hb","provider":"Open Books: A Poem Emporium","version":"1.0","type":"link"}