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Award-winning Wendy Cope is a rare thing - a poet with a truly popular following (Radio 4's Poetry Please listeners voted her their No1 choice for Poet Laureate). Her often comical poetry shows a keen eye for the everyday aspects of English life, especially of intimate relationships. . Wendy's work on the subject of men and other unsatisfactory elements in day to day life, has been described as funny, sad, poignant and whimsical and in 1998 she was the Radio 4's Poetry Please listeners' choice to succeed as Poet Laureate. Her most recently published book Two Cures for Love brings together the best of her selected poems from 1979 to 2006.

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Wendy Cope