Serious Concerns

Paperback / softback

Main Details

Title Serious Concerns
Authors and Contributors      By (author) Wendy Cope
Physical Properties
Format:Paperback / softback
Pages:96
Dimensions(mm): Height 199,Width 131
Category/GenrePoetry by individual poets
ISBN/Barcode 9780571167050
ClassificationsDewey:821.914
Audience
General
Edition Main

Publishing Details

Publisher Faber & Faber
Imprint Faber & Faber
Publication Date 18 March 2002
Publication Country United Kingdom

Description

Wendy Cope's first book of poems and parodies, Making Cocoa for Kingsley Amis, went straight into the bestseller lists. Its successor, Serious Concerns has proved even more popular, addressing such topics as 'Bloody Men', 'Men and Their Boring Arguments', 'Two Cures for Love', 'Kindness to Animals' and 'Tumps' (Typically Useless Male Poets).

Author Biography

Wendy Cope was born in Erith, Kent. After university she worked for fifteen years as a primary-school teacher in London. Her first collection of poems, Making Cocoa for Kingsley Amis, was published in 1986. In 1987 she received a Cholmondley Award for poetry and in 1993 she was elected a Fellow of the Royal Society of Literature. In 1995 she won the American Academy of Letters Michael Braude Award for Light Verse and in 1999 she was awarded a Hon. D.Lit from King Alfred's College, Winchester (Southampton University). She has written and edited numerous poetry volumes and anthologies for both adults and children, and was shortlisted for the 2001 Whitbread Poetry Book of the Year for If I Don't Know.