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Serious Concerns
Serious Concerns by Wendy Cope is the enormously popular follow-up to her bestselling Making Cocoa for Kingsley Amis.
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Wendy Cope’s first book of poems and parodies, Making Cocoa for Kingsley Amis, went straight into the bestseller lists. Its successor, Serious Concerns has proved even more popular, addressing such topics as ‘Bloody Men’, ‘Men and Their Boring Arguments’, ‘Two Cures for Love’, ‘Kindness to Animals’ and ‘Tumps’ (Typically Useless Male Poets).
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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