Wendy Cope (2011 Event)
The poetry of Kent-born Cope has charmed readers ever since her first collection, Making Cocoa for Kingsley Amis. In Family Values she gives it to us straight with verse about religion, childhood and death, all imbued with her trademark wit and honesty. Family Values also holds a few life lessons for friends and relatives: in ‘My Funeral’, she wants no one to overstay their welcome when delivering an elegy while ‘Another Valentine’ aims a slingshot at the forced romanticism of one day in February.
Loading the player... if your browser supports audio and video it
should appear in a few moments.
Book Festival News
Our response to today's statement from Fossil Free BooksWednesday 15 May
Listen to more
Paul Mendez & Derek Owusu: Thorny Intersections (2020 Event)
Chris Brookmyre (2016 Event)
Vivian French reading Billie D
Mary Costello & Han Kang (2015 Event)
Xiaolu Guo
Reggie Nadelson in conversation with Ian Rankin (2010 event)
Laura Bates (2016 Event)
Charly Cox, Theresa Lola & Tayi Tibble at the Edinburgh International Book Festival
Anne Applebaum: Democracy Under Siege (2020 Event)
Gavin Francis (2018 Event)