Making Cocoa for Kingsley Amis

Making Cocoa for Kingsley Amis is Wendy Cope's now classic debut collection of warm, wry, and often hilarious, verse.

"Offers parodies of William Wordsworth, T.S. Eliot, and Emily Dickinson, and humorous sonnets, haiku, and love poems."

When Making Cocoa for Kingsley Amis was first published, it catapulted its author into the bestseller lists and established her as one of our funniest and most eloquent of poets.

'Cope has an extraordinary canny sense - quite rare among poets - of what will engage a reader's attention.' Poetry Review

'A jet-age Tennyson.' London Review of Books

'Like Larkin and Harrison, Cope has proven that a popular poetry is possible without compromising quality.' Acumen Series