Wendy Cope was born on 21 July 1945 and is a contemporary English poet.
10 Facts About Wendy Cope
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Wendy Cope was educated at West Lodge Preparatory School in Sidcup and Farrington's School, Chislehurst, both in Kent.
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Wendy Cope has edited several anthologies of comic verse and was a judge of the 2007 Man Booker Prize.
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Wendy Cope was appointed Officer of the Order of the British Empire in the 2010 Birthday Honours.
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In 2013, after 19 years of living together, Wendy Cope married Lachlan Mackinnon in a register office, although she has stated that she would have preferred a civil partnership.
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Wendy Cope has a keen eye for the everyday, mundane aspects of English life, especially the desires, frustrations, hopes, confusions and emotions in intimate relationships.
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Dr Rowan Williams is a well known fan of her work, writing that: "Wendy Cope is without doubt the wittiest of contemporary English poets, and says a lot of extremely serious things".
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Wendy Cope acknowledges that the first two are quite different from the latter three.
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The freedom of success allowed Wendy Cope to focus on more thorny issues.
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One top-ten list of 'must read' Wendy Cope poems has all top five poems as coming from her first two collections.