(1945-07-21) 21 July 1945 (age 78) Erith, Kent, England[1]
Occupation
Poet
Nationality
British
Education
West Lodge Preparatory School, Sidcup, Kent Farrington's School, Chislehurst, Kent
Alma mater
St Hilda's College, Oxford
Period
1980–present
Notable works
Making Cocoa for Kingsley Amis Serious Concerns
Notable awards
Cholmondeley Award 1987
American Academy of Arts and Letters 1995
Michael Braude Award for Light Verse 1995
Spouse
Lachlan Mackinnon
Wendy CopeOBE (born 21 July 1945) is a contemporary English poet. She read history at St Hilda's College, Oxford. She now lives in Ely, Cambridgeshire, with her husband, the poet Lachlan Mackinnon.
^Lewis, Helen (3 December 2011). "Wendy Cope interview: "I can't die until I've sorted out the filing cabinets"". New Statesman. Retrieved 23 November 2016.
WendyCope OBE (born 21 July 1945) is a contemporary English poet. She read history at St Hilda's College, Oxford. She now lives in Ely, Cambridgeshire...
trio Wendy Bagwell and the Sunliters Wendy Carlos, American composer Wendy Chung, Hong Kong pop and C-Pop lyricist WendyCope, English poet Wendy Davies...
its groove. For poets born in the thirties and forties – Craig Raine, WendyCope, Derek Walcott, Seamus Heaney – Eliot is monumental, although those writers...
at Winchester College in 2011 and moved to Ely with his wife, the poet WendyCope. Mackinnon's first two collections were Monterey Cypress(1998) and The...
Calverley Lewis Carroll Charles E. Carryl Brian P. Cleary William Rossa Cole WendyCope Noël Coward Alma Denny Henry Austin Dobson T. S. Eliot Willard R. Espy...
line poems anagrams a 4 x 4 word square. The Uncertainty of the Poet, by WendyCope, is a gentle poem that repeatedly shuffles its words. Vocabularyclept...
community. Tony Brise (1952–1975), motor-racing driver, was born in Erith. WendyCope (b. 1945), poet, was born in Erith. John Downton (1906–1991), artist,...
2007 *Jon Cook 2021 Artemis Cooper (Lady Beevor) 2016 Susan Cooper 2020 WendyCope 1992 John Cornwell 1985 Frank Cottrell Boyce 2012 Cressida Cowell 2021...
Nash, X. J. Kennedy, Willard R. Espy, Shel Silverstein, Gavin Ewart and WendyCope. Slam poetry as a genre originated in 1986 in Chicago, Illinois, when...
shouting ban - ITV News". ITV News. 24 January 2017. Retrieved 12 June 2021. External link ”The Development of West Cross Housing Estate, by WendyCope”...
starred Vivien Leigh and Robert Taylor. "After the Lunch", a poem by WendyCope about two lovers parting on Waterloo Bridge, now forms the lyric of the...
emerged in this period include Carol Ann Duffy, Andrew Motion, Craig Raine, WendyCope, James Fenton, Blake Morrison, Liz Lochhead, George Szirtes, Linton Kwesi...
1944 – Paul Wellstone, American academic and politician (d. 2002) 1945 – WendyCope, English poet, critic, and educator 1945 – Geoff Dymock, Australian cricketer...
commissioned original plays from contemporary published writers, such as WendyCope, Howard Barker and Finuala Dowling. Gren Middleton and Juliet Rogers formed...
at the age of 24. Her style is often compared to the light verse of WendyCope and the surrealism of Lewis Carroll. She has published five collections...
Zawinul, Elling) – 6:43 "The Uncertainty of the Poet" (Cary John Franklin, WendyCope) – 1:09 "The More I Have You" (Kurt Elling) – 3:38 "Man in the Air" (Laurence...
Birthday Honours List 2010 Archived 2011-06-11 at the Wayback Machine. Saturday 12 June 2010 WendyCope Interviewed at West Chester Poetry Conference...
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