Praise for Wendy Cope and Two Cures for Love:

 

‘An opportunity to read the best of her work in one volume. It reads as freshly as it did when she first found form twenty years ago as the most accomplished and discerning of parodists. Her justly celebrated (and extremely genial) jokes at the expense of T. S. Eliot, John Berryman and Geoffrey Hill among others are testimony to her command of form – seen also in sonnets, triplets, villanelles and ballades. But Cope also has a special second gift, for investing the most ordinary (but important) of emotions – sentimental memories of parents, unrequited love for impossible men – with comic dignity.’
Alan Brownjohn, Sunday Times

 

‘Wendy Cope is that very rare thing in the poetry world: a good poet that people actually read.’
Daisy Goodwin, Daily Telegraph

 

‘Cope has an extraordinarily canny sense – quite rare among poets – of what will engage the reader’s attention.’
Dana Gioia, Poetry Review

 

‘It is worth pointing out that without the heart the jokes would not be so good.’ Robert Nye, The Times

 

‘She should be given a medal for the number of reluctant readers of poetry, of all ages, she’s laughingly and tunefully returned to the fold.’ Ambit

 

‘A jet-age Tennyson.’ London Review of Books