Family Values
66 pages
|Published: 7 Apr 2011
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ISBN: 9780571274215
Format: Hardcover
Language: English
Publisher: Faber and Faber
Publication date: 7 April 2011
Description
From a motorway service area to her ambivalent relationship with religion, Wendy Cope covers a wide range of experience in her new collection. Her mordant humour and formal ingenuity are in evidence, even as she remembers the wounds of a damaging childhood; and in poems about love and the inevitable problems of aging she achieves an intriguing blend of sadness and joy. Two very different sets of commissioned poems round off a remarkable volume, whose opening poem sounds clearly the profound note of compassion which underlies the whole.
