From a motorway service area to her ambivalent relationship with religion, Wendy Cope covers a wide range of experience in her new collection. Her mordant humour and formal ingenuity are in evidence, even as she remembers the wounds of a damaging childhood; and in poems about love and the inevitable problems of aging she achieves an intriguing blend of sadness and joy. Two very different sets of commissioned poems round off a remarkable volume, whose opening poem sounds clearly the profound note of compassion which underlies the whole.
- ISBN13 9780571274215
- Publish Date 1 April 2011
- Publish Status Transferred
- Out of Print 30 September 2014
- Publish Country GB
- Imprint Faber & Faber
- Format Hardcover
- Pages 80
- Language English