Wendy cope

“Written in 2006. Twitter became a thing in 2007.* What I have taken from this is Wendy can predict the future.”

Whilst I love figurative and descriptive language, my favourite writers (Sylvia Plath, Oscar Wilde) tend to stray from excessive descriptions in their works. They don’t use Hemingway’s Iceberg theory…

The ‘Making Cocoa for Kingsley Amis’ poet shares the book that surprised her the most, the best thing a reader ever said to her, and the few films she thinks are – almost – better than the book

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Oranges and poetry by Wendy cope