Collected Poems

Praise for Wendy Cope: “We can love Wendy Cope’s words … for the rhymes they reveal but also for the sad truths they speak.” - Adam Gopnik, the New Yorker“One has to go back to Byron to find a poet as consistently witty, wide-ranging and technically outstanding as Cope.” - Los Angeles Review of Books“We need not wonder at Wendy Cope’s continued, wide appeal. She writes poems that people want to read, and this is how poems survive.” - Literary Review“Wit and heart? Cope’s fans should rest assured there are enough gems here with both.” - The Telegraph“Wendy Cope’s real strength lies not in charm or insight (she has buckets of both) but in the pitch-perfect exactitude of her writing.” - The Sunday Times

Wendy Cope was born in Erith, Kent. After university she worked for fifteen years as a primary-school teacher in London. In 1987 she received a Cholmondeley Award for poetry and in 1995 the American Academy of Arts and Letters Michael Braude Award. The Orange and other poems was published in 2023.