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Family values

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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 ageing 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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Faber & Faber
0571274226 / 9780571274222
Paperback
821.92
02/01/2014
United Kingdom
English
80 p.
20 cm
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Reprint. Originally published: 2011.
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