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Family Values
About this book
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.
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Table of contents
- Cover
- Title Page
- Table of Contents
- A Christmas Song
- Christmas Ornaments
- Cathedral Carol Service
- O Come, All Ye Faithful
- Differences of Opinion
- Sunday Morning
- You’re Not Allowed
- Daily Help
- Boarders
- Omo
- The Women’s Merchant Navy
- The Africans
- Uncle Bill
- Brahms Cradle Song
- Greydawn
- At Stafford Services
- At the Poetry Conference
- The Health Scare
- Sixty-one
- Keep Saying This
- Once I’m Dead
- My Funeral
- Seeing You
- Macedonia 1987
- Dutch Portraits
- Haiku
- April
- The Month of May
- Lissadell
- At Steep
- A Villanelle for Hugo Williams
- Two Ann(e)s
- Special Needs
- Old Boys’ Day
- Probably
- Stars
- An Anniversary Poem
- Spared
- Another Valentine
- from The Audience
- from An ABC of the BBC
- Acknowledgements
- About the Author
- By the Same Author
- Copyright
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