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Serious Concerns
By (Author) Wendy Cope
Faber & Faber
Faber & Faber
1st October 2019
5th September 2019
Main
United Kingdom
General
Non Fiction
821.92
Hardback
96
Width 136mm, Height 205mm, Spine 15mm
191g
Wendy Cope's first book of poems and parodies, Making Cocoa for Kingsley Amis, went straight into the bestseller lists. Its successor, Serious Concerns has proved even more popular, addressing such topics as 'Bloody Men', 'Men and Their Boring Arguments', 'Two Cures for Love', 'Kindness to Animals' and 'Tumps' (Typically Useless Male Poets).
This beautifully designed edition forms part of a series of ten titles celebrating Faber's publishing over the decades.
Wendy Cope was born in Erith, Kent. After university she worked for fifteen years as a primary-school teacher in London. Her first collection of poems, Making Cocoa for Kingsley Amis, was published in 1986 and her most recent, Family Values, in 2011. In 1987 she received a Cholmondeley Award for poetry and in 1995 the American Academy of Arts and Letters Michael Braude Award. Two Cures for Love: Selected Poems was published in 2008.