Serious Concerns

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Before I got married, I used to think about the dating game as that part of the game show "The Price Is Right" when you are made to choose one of two closed doors while having no idea what's behind them... but after making the choice, if you make the wrong choice and it turns out the other door was the better choice, you can't change your mind. The indecision of youth used to remind me so much of that game! a b c "Los Angeles Review of Books". Los Angeles Review of Books. 27 February 2018 . Retrieved 17 November 2022. Inspired by an advertisement that was placed in The Times by the Engineering Council, ‘Engineers’ Corner’ is the first poem in Cope’s first collection of poems, the 1986 volume Making Cocoa for Kingsley Amis. The advert snottily asked why Britain has ‘always made more fuss of a ballad than a blueprint’, and sniffily suggested there should be an ‘Engineers’ Corner’ to complement Poets’ Corner in Westminster Abbey. Cope’s brilliantly witty retort is a tour de force.

Serious Concerns | Faber

Three haiku from Making Cocoa for Kingsley Amis, where they are presented as being written by the (fictional) Tulse Hill poet Jason Strugnell, were set by the composer Colin Matthews in 1990 as Strugnell's Haiku. [12]

Mr Strugnell’ is a particularly fine example of Cope’s ability to capture the style of another poet: here, she takes on Philip Larkin’s ‘Mr Bleaney’ while filtering that poem through the personality of the hapless Strugnell. Strugnell, it probably doesn’t need saying, is no Larkin – but he may well be a latter-day Bleaney … Carey, Russell; Fairhill, Anne; Rank, Tom (12 November 2015). A/AS Level English Literature A for AQA Student Book. Cambridge University Press. p.98. ISBN 978-110-7467-92-7. The humour and knowingness is, at times, offset with poignancy: this can be seen in poems such as ‘Tich Miller’ and ‘Lonely Hearts’. These two poems demonstrate an awareness of the outsider, which is in keeping with the undeclared premise of being accessible to a wider readership. In 1987 she received a Cholmondeley Award for poetry and in 1995 the American Academy of Arts and Letters Michael Braude Award for light verse. In 2007 she was one of the judges for the Man Booker Prize. The author of this article, Dr Oliver Tearle, is a literary critic and lecturer in English at Loughborough University. He is the author of, among others, The Secret Library: A Book-Lovers’ Journey Through Curiosities of History and The Great War, The Waste Land and the Modernist Long Poem.

Serious Concerns by Wendy Cope | Waterstones

This is a seemingly simple poem in everyday colloquial language, but it explores some serious themes. These include aging, life phases, time passing, but most importantly identity. His chief desire was to express himself and his own truth – and therefore life and humanity.” – Walter de la Mare on Edward Thomas Cope keeps her explanations droll and to the point, wisely allowing the poems their own voice. Containing a generous selection from her three books this recording is a wonderful showcase for the emotional and technical deftness that’s made her work so widely cherished.The eponymous poem of her second collection, Serious Concerns, takes on the critics (specifically Robert O’Brien in this instance) who have regarded her humour as ‘both her strength and her limitation’, and questions this reasoning: