2019.01.27温迪-科普 当代诗人

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Wendy Cope is one of England’s most popular and widely-read contemporary poets.

Wendy was born in Erith, Kent. Her father was 29 years older than her mother and she was sent to boarding school at the age of seven. Although English was her favourite subject at school, in a bid to defy her English teacher’s expectations, she read history at Oxford. Following graduation she became a primary school teacher.

After the death of her father in 1971, Wendy entered psychoanalysis in 1973 and turned to writing poetry. Having attended evening classes in creative writing, one of her poems was published in a collection which brought her to the attention of Faber and Faber. Her first volume of poetry, Making Cocoa For Kingsley Amis, was published in 1986, and became an instant success, and she gave up teaching to become a full time writer.

She has since published four volumes of a poetry: Serious Concerns (1992), If I Don’t Know (2001), Family Values (2011) and Anecdotal Evidence (2018) as well as two volumes for children, Twiddling Your Thumbs (1988) and The River Girl (1991). In 2011, Wendy sold her entire personal archive to the British Library, which consisted of 15 boxes of manuscript, including several unpublished early works.

Wendy lives in Ely and is married to fellow poet, Lachlan Mackinnon.

BOOK CHOICE: Compleet Molesworth by Geoffrey Willans
LUXURY ITEM: Pen and paper
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温迪-科普是英格兰最受欢迎和最广泛阅读的当代诗人之一。

温迪出生于肯特郡的埃里斯。她的父亲比她的母亲大29岁，她在7岁时就被送到了寄宿学校。虽然英语是她在学校最喜欢的科目，但为了不辜负英语老师的期望，她在牛津大学读历史。毕业后，她成为一名小学教师。

1971年她的父亲去世后，温迪在1973年进入精神分析领域，并转向诗歌创作。在参加了创意写作夜校后，她的一首诗在一本诗集中发表，这使她得到了法布尔出版社的关注。她的第一本诗集《为金斯利-阿米斯制作可可》于1986年出版，并立即获得了成功，她放弃了教学，成为一名全职作家。

此后，她又出版了四卷诗集。严重关切》（1992年）、《如果我不知道》（2001年）、《家庭价值观》（2011年）和《轶事证据》（2018年），以及两本儿童读物《扭动你的拇指》（1988年）和《河流女孩》（1991年）。2011年，温迪将她的全部个人档案卖给了大英图书馆，其中包括15箱手稿，包括一些未发表的早期作品。

温迪住在伊利，与同为诗人的拉克兰-麦金农结婚。

书籍选择：杰弗里-威兰斯的《完整的莫尔斯沃斯》。
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