In this anthology, Wendy Cope has selected 101 of her own favourite poems, from Lewis Carroll and W.S. Gilbert to Gavin Ewart, Kit Wright and Sophie Hannah.

The Funny Side (Penguin)

Humor & Entertainment

Wendy Cope

Humor

Penguin Audiobooks

<p>The comic brilliance and formal skills which propelled Making Cocoa for Kingsley Amis and Serious Concerns into the bestseller lists are much in evidence here. But a softer, lyrical voice, also present in the earlier books, is given more room to develop in poems about gardens and contentment and the poignancy of having something to lose. If I Don't Know ends with a longer poem, a moving narrative called 'The Teacher's Tale'. Fireworks Poems (from If I Don't Know) I Faster and faster, They vanish into darkness: Our years together. II Write it in fire across the night: Some men are more or less all right.</p>

If I Don't Know

Literature & Fiction

Poetry

Gardners Books

Faber&Faber

Faber Poetry Essentials Box Set

Sylvia Plath

Simon Armitage

Seamus HEaney

Siegfried, Sassoon

Philip Larkin

T.S.Eliot

TED HUGHES

VARIOUS

Faber and Faber

Two Cures for Love: Selected Poems, 1979-2006

TWO CURES FOR LOVE

Faber and Faber Ltd.

Making Cocoa for Kingsley Amis

From a motorway service area to her ambivalent relationship with religion, Wendy Cope covers a wide range of experience in her new collection. Her mordant humour and formal ingenuity are in evidence, even as she remembers the wounds of a damaging childhood; and in poems about love and the inevitable problems of aging she achieves an intriguing blend of sadness and joy. Two very different sets of commissioned poems round off a remarkable volume, whose opening poem sounds clearly the profound note of compassion which underlies the whole.

Family Values

In The Funny Side Wendy Cope, herself one of the funniest poets now writing in English, has collected 101 of the poems that have most amused her. Acknowledged classics of the genre are to be found alongside newer pieces, and the collection as a whole illustrates the great range to be found under the heading of 'humorous poetry'.

Funny Side: 101 Humorous Poems

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