Serious Concerns

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Wendy Cope is not just a comic poet, and she can often move us with her touching account of falling in love (or, for that matter, out of love, or, for another matter, being single and not having anyone to love). This poem is a prime example.

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The poem comprises seventeen lines of irregular length, with no rhyme scheme and frequent use of enjambment. There are also no divisions into stanzas; they would be irrelevant because the subject’s life has flowed in a continuum.Since my earlier recording for the archive in 2005, I have published one new collection of poems, Family Values (2011), and am close to completing the next. Some of the poems in this new recording are from the book; others are as yet uncollected.

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of the Best Wendy Cope Poems Everyone Should Read". Interesting Literature. 17 February 2017 . Retrieved 17 November 2022. If this selection has whetted your appetite for more of Wendy Cope’s work, we recommend Two Cures for Love: Selected Poems 1979-2006 . The tone, however, is light-hearted, and the character of the subject, her warmth and friendliness, comes over vividly to the reader. The poet conveys affection for her subject, whether Eliza/Nanna is fictional or autobiographical.In 1987 she received a Cholmondeley Award for poetry and in 1995 the American Academy of Arts and Letters Michael Braude Award for light verse. In 2007 she was one of the judges for the Man Booker Prize. Use italics (lyric) and bold (lyric) to distinguish between different vocalists in the same song part