Wendy Cope | Collected Poems
Recorded: Sun 23 Nov 2025
Duration: 1 hour
Wendy Cope | Collected Poems
Winter 2025
Wendy Cope is that rarest of writers: a poet who is both critically acclaimed and a true bestseller. Since the publication of her first collection Making Cocoa for Kingsley Amis in 1986, she has won countless admirers with her wit, clarity and emotional honesty. A whole new generation of readers discovered her when her much-loved poem The Orange went viral.
Now, for the first time, all her work is gathered in one definitive volume, Collected Poems. Across these pages, Cope explores our deepest longings and anxieties – love and disappointment, humour and heartache, as well as a hard-won belief in the possibility of happiness.
Celebrate the remarkable career of one of Britain’s most beloved poets.
Wendy Cope in conversation with Alex Clark.
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