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Wendy Cope

December 2023

  • God Save the King is sung at Tottenham Hotspur stadium before an NFL London American football on 9 October 2022.

    Brief letters
    Time to liven up the national anthem – at 120bpm

    Brief letters: A change of tempo | Tories’ tumblers | Boxed up | Women’s work

December 2021

  • Moon over Christmas lights on Lake Trasimeno Lake in Castiglione del Lago, Italy.

    Top 10s
    Top 10 Christmas poems

    Poets from Thomas Hardy to TS Eliot and Wendy Cope articulate the wonder – and dread – of the festive season

April 2021

  • Poet Wendy Cope. London. 30/10/14

    'A poem about a dream': Wendy Cope on Making Cocoa for Kingsley Amis

    The poet on her early obsession with poetry, inventing her own struggling male poet and only realising the core theme behind her collection after it was published

March 2020

  • Deborah Alma, AKA the Emergency Poet, who co-edited These Are the Hands.

    'Everyone is pulling together': poems by NHS workers to raise money for Covid-19 appeal

    Anthology These Are the Hands collects poems from across the health service, from doctors to cleaners

November 2018

  • Getting her coat … current UK poet laureate Carol Ann Duffy.

    As poet laureate prepares to step down, the succession race begins

    Carol Ann Duffy will finish her decade in the role in May, but the long process of choosing the next appointee begins this weekend

February 2016

  • Emily Dickinson

    Book of the day
    The sequel to Poems That Make Grown Men Cry: women, look upon these works and weep…

  • There’s help on the shelf ... a lonely man.

    Top 10s
    Top 10 books for the broken-hearted

October 2015

  • 'Boycott Israel' sign on a wall in Bethlehem

    Israel needs cultural bridges, not boycotts – letter from JK Rowling, Simon Schama and others

    Letter: Cultural boycotts singling out Israel are divisive and discriminatory, and will not further peace

January 2015

  • Young Fathers won the Mercury Prize for their album Dead

    The best original photographs from the Observer
    Original Observer photography: December 2014

    We look back at the faces of 2014 and predict the movers and shakers for the new year. This month’s gallery features portraits of the up-and-coming alongside more established figures such as David Tennant, Eddie Redmayne and Paul Thomas Anderson. This is a showcase of the best photography commissioned by the Observer in December

December 2014

  • Wendy Cope

    This much I know
    Wendy Cope: ‘My secret love is Strictly Come Dancing’

    The poet, 69, on being a late starter, what she owes psychoanalysis and why giving up smoking is so difficult

October 2014

  • 'Seve' Premiere, London, Britain - 23 Jun 2014

    Celebrity memoir roundup

    Clare Balding, John Cleese, Graham Norton, Anjelica Huston, Paul Merton, Stephen Fry (again)… Viv Groskop takes a look at the latest starry life stories

February 2014

  • Wendy Cope

    Wendy Cope: 'We like being married but we should have had a choice'

    Wendy Cope

    Having avoided marriage for 19 years and being barred from civil partnership, the poet tells how she and her partner finally exchanged vows, complete with tears and Tesco bubbly. Plus To My Husband, a previously unpublished poem by Wendy Cope

January 2014

  • Ben Whishaw and Abbie Cornish in Bright Star

    Rhythm is the key to good sex: why leading poet is launching anthology of steamy verse

    From Catullus to Daniel Craig and Marvell to Wendy Cope, a new volume will gather the most lyrical celebrations of human passion

May 2013

  • barbara pym

    Books blog
    Barbara Pym's centenary glass of blessings

    John Dugdale: Fans celebrate the novelist of vicarages and unrequited love with cupcakes, teabag rests - and paperback perfume

January 2013

  • Philip Larkin outside Hull University library

    Ebooks: the new reading
    Why Faber Voices is well worth shouting about

    Seamus Heaney, Ted Hughes and co speak for themselves in 20-minute poetry selections for iPhone and iPad, writes Anna Baddeley

April 2012

  • Jubilee streetparty

    Sixty years in poems

    Carol Ann Duffy invites leading poets to recall a year in verse

May 2011

  • wendy

    Family Values by Wendy Cope

    Wendy Cope's first new collection of poems in a decade finds her focusing on death, in deadpan style, writes Kate Kellaway

April 2011

  • Illustration of wedding group by Posy Simmonds

    Poems for a wedding

  • Wendy Cope

    Wendy Cope's archive sold to British Library

March 2011

  • The Saturday poem
    A Villanelle for Hugo Williams

    By Wendy Cope

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