Making Cocoa for Kingsley Amis by Wendy Cope

Witty poems on love, literature and life

Excellent Condition – Very light corner and edge wear; pages appear clean.

Wendy Cope's first poetry collection combines lightness, precision and a sharp ear for literary convention. Through humorous sonnets, haiku, love poems and inventive parodies of writers including Wordsworth, T. S. Eliot and Emily Dickinson, she finds comedy in romance, disappointment and the habits of the literary world. The wit is immediate, but the poems also reveal tenderness and emotional clarity beneath their playfulness. Accessible and deftly crafted, the collection established Cope's distinctive voice and enduring gift for making serious feelings memorable through humour.