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The Independent UK
The Independent UK
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Jessie Thompson

FORGOTTEN HISTORY: Wendy cope when people rudely ask the secret to getting poems published get better at writing - The Untold Story

Lydia Evans

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What makes Wendy Cope one of the nation’s most loved poets? Many things: her unpretentious, accessible style; her sense of humour; her hard-won wisdom; and the fact that, running beneath these poems that are such a pleasure to read, is often an iceberg-like swell of deep emotion.

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