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Family Values
by Wendy Cope - £8.99 Faber and Faber (2012)
paperback
ISBN 13: 9780571280629 | ISBN 10: 0571280625
From a motorway service area to her ambivalent relationship with religion, Wendy Cope covers a wide range of experience in her new collection. Her mordant humour and formal ingenuity are in evidence, even as she remembers the wounds of a damaging childhood; and in poems about love and the inevitable problems of aging she achieves an intriguing blend of sadness and joy.
Two very different sets of commissioned poems round off a remarkable volume, whose opening poem sounds clearly the profound note of compassion which underlies the whole.
(Price & availability last checked: June 2019)
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