19 Apr 2011 10:19
Correspondence in the archive of Wendy Cope
Correspondence The archive includes personal and professional correspondence spanning the length of Cope's career, including from Andrew Motion, Ted Hughes, A.N.Wilson, Anthony Thwaite, Blake Morrison, Carol Rumens, Craig Raine, Gavin Ewart, James Fenton and Kingsley Amis (expressing his delight with the success of Cope's first published volume of poems, Making Cocoa for Kingsley Amis (1986). A postcard from Ted Hughes, dated 26 March 1992, in which he congratulates her on the success of her recently published volume, Serious Concerns. Hughes also remarks on Cope's uncompromising clear-sightedness and her appeal: 'I've had a lot of real pleasure out of 'Serious Concerns' - laughed out loud here and there. I like your deadpan fearless sort of way of whacking the nail on the head - when everybody else is trying to hang pictures on it. Congratulations, also, on getting the best typeface out of Fabers for 14 years. It means they expect your poems to be read.'
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