Features a selection of poems with notes that grew out of the author's experience of meeting her audience, when reading her poems in schools. This is an edition of the poems which identifies the references, verse-forms, contexts and occasions of the author's work, and which offers readers a fresh arrangement of the poetry as a whole.

In this exuberant anthology, Wendy Cope attempts to prove that misery does not have all the best lines. Here is a collection of poems which is unashamedly happy: poems about love, places, the beauty of the natural world, about company and solitude, music, food and drink and books.

Beware of Jaws and meet Georgie, Thomasina, Serendipity the Snail and other characters in this collection of hand rhymes. Arranged in order of increasing difficulty, these rhymes are designed for use at home or in the classroom. Wendy Cope is the author of The River Girl .

A collection of poems featuring works by Cope such as Bloody Men , Men and their Boring Arguments and Two Cures for Love . Other collections include Making Cocoa for Kingsley Amis and the long narrative poem The River Girl .

Offers parodies of William Wordsworth, T.S. Eliot, and Emily Dickinson, and humorous sonnets, haiku, and love poems.

This collection of poems from Wendy Cope reveals a softer lyrical voice, also present in her earlier books, but here given more room to develop in poems about gardens and contentment, and the poignancy of having something to lose.

Features a collection of poems with notes. The poems in this volume identify the references, verse-forms, contexts and occasions of the poet's work.

This collection of poems from Wendy Cope reveals a softer lyrical voice, also present in her earlier books, but here given more room to develop in poems about gardens and contentment, and the poignancy of having something to lose.

George Herbert was a 17th century spiritual writer. This is a selection of his poetry and prose chosen by the poet, Wendy Cope. The volume also contains some biographical detail and historical context.

In the traditional fairy-tale style this book looks at the themes of love and loss by following the experiences of Isis, a river girl, who falls hopelesly in love with a mortal poet. Isis begs her Father, Thames, to free her from the river.

Drawing on classic tradition as well as contemporary work, this children's anthology includes folk tales from Africa and Japan, retellings of The Emperor's New Clothes and Beauty and the Beast , fairy-tales about kings and castles, and stories about ordinary children of the present day.

This anthology of 101 humorous poems includes work by Lewis Carroll, W.S. Gilbert, Gavin Ewart, Kit Wright and Sophie Hannah.