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2 unusual facts about Wendy Cope


Royston Arts Festival

In recent years it has featured the trumpeter Alison Balsom, the theatre Director Robin Belfield, the author/illustrator James Mayhew, the poet Wendy Cope, Megson and the Daleks.

Strugnell

the fictional Jake/Jason Strugnell, a poet from Tulse Hill, a persona employed by the poet Wendy Cope in her collection Making Cocoa for Kingsley Amis (1986)


Caroline Bird

She has given poetry readings at The Royal Festival Hall (with Elaine Feinstein), Latitude Festival, the Wellcome Collection (with Don Paterson), St Hilda's College, Oxford (with Wendy Cope), the Wordsworth Trust (with Gillian Allnutt), Cheltenham Festival (with Clare Pollard) and Ledbury Festival, amongst others.


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