Wendy Cope, OBE (* 21. Juli 1945 in Erith, Großbritannien) ist eine zeitgenössische britische Dichterin. Zurzeit lebt sie zusammen mit dem Dichter Lachlan Mackinnon in Winchester.
Bis 2006 gab sie drei Gedichtbände heraus: Making Cocoa for Kingsley Amis (1986), Serious Concerns (1992) und If I Don't Know (2001). Einige ihrer Gedichte sind aus der Sicht des sich abmühenden Lyrikers Jason Stugnell geschrieben. Daneben betätigte sie sich als Parodistin und zielte dabei sowohl auf Sonette von Sir Philip Sidney ab:
My true love hath my heart and I have hers We swapped last Tuesday and felt quite elated But now whenever one of us refers To 'my heart' things get rather complicated.
als auch auf T. S. Eliot, dessen Gedicht The Waste Land (Das wüste Land) sie zu einem Limerick abkürzte:
In April one seldom feels cheerful; Dry stones, sun and dust make me fearful; Clairvoyants distress me, Commuters depress me-- Met Stetson and gave him an earful.
Werke Across the City Priapus Press (limited edition), 1980 Hope and the 42 Other Branch Readings, 1984 Making Cocoa for Kingsley Amis Faber and Faber, 1986 Poem from a Colour Chart of House Paints (limited edition) Priapus Press, 1986 Does She Like Word Games? Anvil Press, 1988 Men and Their Boring Arguments Wykeham, 1988 Twiddling Your Thumbs Faber and Faber, 1988 Is That the New Moon? (editor) HarperCollins, 1989 The River Girl Faber and Faber, 1991 Serious Concerns Faber and Faber, 1992 The Faber Book of Drink, Drinkers and Drinking (contributor) Faber and Faber, 1993 The Orchard Book of Funny Poems (editor) Orchard, 1993 The Squirrel and the Crow Prospero Poets, 1994 Poems 1 (contributor) Addison-Wesley Longman, 1995 Another Day on Your Foot and I Would Have Died (contributor) Macmillan, 1996 Casting a Spell (contributor) Faber and Faber, 1996 Marigolds Grow Wild on Platforms: An Anthology of Railway Poetry (contributor) Ward Lock, 1996 Over the Moon: Championship Football Poems (contributor) Red Fox, 1996 A Draft of XXX Cantos (contributor) Faber and Faber, 1997 Dear Future: A Time Capsule of Poems (contributor) Hodder & Stoughton, 1997 Evergreen Verse (contributor) Dent, 1997 For All Occasions (contributor) Methuen, 1997 Funnybones (contributor) CollinsEducational, 1998 Silly Bones (contributor) Scholastic, 1998 The Funny Side: 101 Humorous Poems (editor) Faber and Faber, 1998 The Epic Poise: A Celebration of Ted Hughes (contributor) Faber and Faber, 1999 The Faber Book of Bedtime Stories (editor) Faber and Faber, 1999 Big Orchard Book of Funny Poems (editor) Orchard, 2000 Heaven on Earth: 101 Happy Poems (editor) Faber and Faber, 2001 If I Don't Know Faber and Faber, 2001 Is That The New Moon?: Poems by Women Poets (selector) Collins, 2002 George Herbert: Verse and Prose (selector and introduction) SPCK, 2003
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