Afternoon Talk (3) : Rory Waterman talks to Wendy Cope (E15), Sunday 7th November 2021, 5 - 6pm. Hostedby Susannah Hart
To celebrate a unique new study of the poet and her work, the academic, critic and poet Rory Waterman talks to Wendy Cope about her writing life and poetry career. Wendy Cope is one of Britain’s most popular poets: her first two collections have together sold almost half a million copies, and in 1998, when Ted Hughes died, she was the BBC listeners’ choice to succeed him as Poet Laureate. She is also contrarian and sometimes controversial, and has been celebrated as one of the finest parodists of her, or any, generation. Rory Waterman is recent author of Wendy Cope (LUP, 2021) and is Associate Professor at NTU. His most recent poetry collection, Sweet Nothings (2020) is published by Carcanet.
