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Twiddling Your Thumbs

Wendy Cope
Illustrated by Sally Kindberg
Format
Paperback
ISBN
9780571165377
Date Published
26.10.1992
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Wendy Cope was born in Erith, Kent. After university she worked for fifteen years as a primary-school teacher in London. Her first collection of poems, Making Cocoa for Kingsley Amis, was published in 1986 and her most recent, Anecdotal Evidence, in 2018. In 1987 she received a Cholmondeley Award for poetry and in 1995 the American Academy of Arts and…

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