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| | River Girl, The - Wendy Cope - Printed Books Shopping at dooyoo.co.uk |
 | | Wendy Cope burst onto the poetic scene in the 1980s with Making Cocoa for Kingsley Amis, which although being from Faber and Faber, was a good poetry collection - with wit, humour and style, and not all this pompous verbal diarrhoea they keep flogging to us. |
 | | I was introduced to this at uni in a basic get-them-to-actually-look-at-poetry way, having been put off much modern verse beforehand with Eliot and DH Lawrence, like many. |
 | | It turns out to have been a handy commission for Cope, as she hardly published anything for many years after Cocoa, and yet to come were the heady days of the later '90s, when she had finally more collections of her own, and a host of editing comic verse... |
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