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Wendy Cope, Addlestone
Wendy Cope, Addlestone
 1 May 2008 8.00pm |
Tickets: £12/£8
01784 477304 or buy online at www.rfest.co.uk
Main Theatre St George’s College, Weybridge Road, Addlestone, KT15 2QS Follow directions on arrival www.st-georges-college.co.uk
Wendy Cope Radio 4’s Poetry Please listeners voted Wendy Cope their No. 1 choice for Poet Laureate and it’s easy to see why. Technically superb but highly accessible, an evening with Wendy is a real joy and not to be missed. Wendy Cope’s witty lyrics and pitch-perfect parodies have gained her a readership far beyond most of her peers. Born in Erith, Kent, she read History at St. Hilda's College, Oxford. She then taught in primary schools in London before becoming a freelance writer in 1986. Her debut collection, Making Cocoa for Kingsley Amis, struck a chord with its lampooning of literary pretensions and its wry look at contemporary relationships, and has sold over 180,000 copies to date. Her subsequent collections - Serious Concerns in 1992 and If I Don't Know in 2001 (shortlisted for the Whitbread Poetry Award) - both confirmed her reputation as a classic English humorist whilst also allowing room for poems of a more meditative tone. She has edited several poetry anthologies, including Heaven on Earth: 101 happy poems and Is That the New Moon: an anthology of women poets , and her poems for children are widely anthologised. She currently lives in Winchester. Wendy reads her hilariously wry, ironic poetry with a question and answer session to round off, followed by a book signing. (With acknowledgements to www.poetryarchive.org) “A jet age Tennyson.” London Review of Books With thanks to St George’s College for their kind support
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