FEBRUARY 28 - MARCH 1 2008
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Book your tickets here for the following event:
 Wendy Cope
Thursday 1 May, 8.00pm (doors 7.30pm)
16 years old+
£12/£8 concessions & students
Main Theatre, St George's College, Weybridge Road, Addlestone
www.st-georges-college.co.uk
Follow directions on arrival
Box office: 01784 477304
Radio 4's Poetry Please listeners voted Wendy Cope their No.1 choice for Poet Laureate and it's easy to see why. Technically superb but highly accessible, an evening with Wendy is a real joy and not to be missed.
Wendy Cope's witty lyrics have gained her a readership far beyond most of her peers. Born in Erith, Kent, she read History at St. Hilda's College, Oxford. Her debut collection, Making Cocoa for Kingsley Amis, struck a chord with its lampooning of literary pretensions and its wry look at contemporary relationships, and has sold over 180,000 copies to date. Her subsequent collections - Serious Concerns in 1992 and If I Don't Know in 2001 (shortlisted for the Whitbread Poetry Award) - both confirmed her reputation as a classic English humorist whilst also allowing room for poems of a more meditative tone.
She has edited several poetry anthologies, including Heaven on Earth: 101 Happy Poems and Is That the New Moon: An Anthology of Women Poets. Wendy reads her hilariously wry, ironic poetry with a question and answer session to round off, followed by a book signing.
(With acknowledgements to www.poetryarchive.org)
"A jet age Tennyson" London Review of Books
With thanks to St George's College for their kind support
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