Description
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.
Book Details
Format
Paperback
Pages
80 pages
Language
English
Published
Jan 19, 2012
Publisher
Faber & Faber
Editions
3 editions
ISBN-10
0571280625
ISBN-13
9780571280629
Genres
Romance
Religion & Spirituality
Poetry