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Wendy Cope, celebrated poet and author of acclaimed collections of her poetry ('Making Cocoa for Kingsley Amis')joins Will Atkinson, Sales and Marketing Director of her publishers, Faber & Faber
| 16 Jun 2009 | Wendy Cope |
What better combination could you wish for? A fine summer’s evening networking with friends and colleagues, accompanied by Pimm’s and cool wine, plus some delicious refreshments, followed by readings from Wendy Cope, one of our best-loved poets, and a lively discussion with Will Atkinson, sales and marketing director of her publisher, Faber & Faber.
It was a magnificent occasion attended by around 100 people, and Wendy read engagingly from her wide repertoire of poems – The Flowers You Nearly Sent Me, Bloody Men, How To Deal With the Press – and many others. In discussion with Will, who proved a gentle, even self-deprecating companion, but with a sharp witty streak, Wendy said how difficult it could be for her to write commissions – to order, so to speak – and how much she sympathised with the role of the poet laureate (a job she had specifically ruled herself out of) given commands for performance...
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