Inspiration comes from all sorts of sources. There was I, watching the final of University Challenge last night, when poet Wendy Cope walked out to hand over the trophy.
'Ah,' I thought. 'I'm sure I've got one of her books on the shelf. It's about time I read it.'
A few hours later, I rooted out the appropriately 'slender volume', Making Cocoa for Kingsley Amis (her first published collection, from 1986), propped myself up in bed and started to read.
How absolutely delightful. Laugh-out-loud funny in places, Cope's verse is clever and quirky...
The rest of the review is here.
'Ah,' I thought. 'I'm sure I've got one of her books on the shelf. It's about time I read it.'
A few hours later, I rooted out the appropriately 'slender volume', Making Cocoa for Kingsley Amis (her first published collection, from 1986), propped myself up in bed and started to read.
How absolutely delightful. Laugh-out-loud funny in places, Cope's verse is clever and quirky...
The rest of the review is here.