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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 ageing 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 ...

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Family Values 2012, Faber & Faber, London

ISBN-13: 9780571280629

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Family Values 2011, Faber & Faber, London

ISBN-13: 9780571274215

Hardcover