The Funny Side
(Paperback, Main)
Publishing Details
The Funny Side
By (Author) Wendy Cope
Edited by Wendy Cope
Edited by Wendy Cope
Faber & Faber
Faber & Faber
1st May 2012
1st March 2012
Main
United Kingdom
Classifications
General
Non Fiction
821.914
Physical Properties
Paperback
176
Width 128mm, Height 198mm, Spine 12mm
143g
Description
This anthology of 101 humorous poems includes work by Lewis Carroll, W.S. Gilbert, Gavin Ewart, Kit Wright and Sophie Hannah.
Author Bio
Wendy Cope was born in Erith, Kent. Her first collection of poems, Making Cocoa for Kingsley Amis, was published in 1986. 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. Two Cures for Love: Selected Poems 1979-2006 was published in 2008. Family Values was published in 2011. She has also edited several anthologies of comic verse and was a judge of the 2007 Man Booker Prize. Cope was appointed Officer of the Order of the British Empire (OBE) in the 2010 Birthday Honours.
