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This week, Simone Gubler ponders the contents of a dog's mind; and Tristram Fane Saunders praises the poet Wendy Cope's strengths and subtleties.'The Happiness of Dogs: Why the Unexamined Life is Most Worth Living', by Mark Rowlands'Collared: How We Made the Modern Dog', by Chris Pearson'Collected Poems', by Wendy Cope Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.
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Thank you for listening to Write On! Audio, the podcast for writers everywhere brought to you by Pen to Print Our Listener contribution for November is from poet and Write On! regular Eithne Cullen. In this piece, Eithne discusses the power of poetry and shares some of her favourite verse including poems by Mary Oliver and Wendy Cope. You can find out more about Eithne by following her on social media via the following links https://twitter.com/eithne_cullen https://www.instagram.com/eithnecullen57/ We're always delighted to read your contributions so if you'd like to see your words in Write On! or hear them on this podcast please get in touch. Please submit to: https://pentoprint.org/get-involved/submit-to-write-on/ Thank you for listening to Write On! Audio. This edition has been presented by Tiffany Clare and produced by Chris Gregory. Write On! Audio is an Alternative Stories production for Pen to Print. This podcast is produced using public funding from Arts Council England
On this week's edition of The Verb, Ian McMillan gathers together - Wendy Cope - the poet whose 1986 debut collection "Making Cocoa For Kingsley Amis" became that rare thing - a poetry best seller. As her first collected poems are published she reflects on poetry forms and why some of her old poems are making their first public appearance in her new book.Ira Lightman, poet and artist, reflects on the nature of the epic. A marathon endeavour for poets and readers, it's usually seen as an ancient style but it is a form of poetry that contemporary poets continue to embrace including Ira himself.Susie Dent, known for her ability to find just the right word, discusses her new novel, Guilty By Definition in which a group of lexicographers use their dictionary-making skills to solve a mystery.Theresa Lola, former Young People's Laureate for London reads from her new collection, Ceremony for the Nameless, a poetry disquisition on the subject of naming. Presenter: Ian McMillan Producer: Ekene Akalawu
Our guest today is Kate Romano. Kate is the CEO of arts centre Stapleford Granary which recently dedicated a whole weekend to celebrating many different aspects of Philip Larkin's life, photography, jazz and poetry. Gavin and I were lucky enough to be able to head down there and enjoy the events as well as running a PLS stall in the middle of it all, talking about all things Larkin to the good people of Cambridgeshire. Kate joined me to reflect back on the weekend and what she learned about Larkin in the process as well as to look at Broadcast, The Mower, Church Going and Lines on a Young Lady's photograph album in particular. https://www.staplefordgranary.org.uk/whats-on/events Michael Symmons Roberts https://symmonsroberts.com/ Wendy Cope https://www.faber.co.uk/author/wendy-cope/ John Betjeman- Death In Leamington Life, Art and Love by James Booth (Bloomsbury, 2014) The Importance of Elsewhere by Richard Bradford, with an introduction by Mark Howarth-Booth ( Frances Lincoln, 2015) The Sunday Sessions https://www.faber.co.uk/product/9780571244058-the-sunday-sessions/ Monica Jones, Philip Larkin and Me: Her Life and Long Loves by John Sutherland (Weidenfeld & Nicolson, 2021) Larkin poems discussed: Lines on A Young Lady's Photograph Album, Church Going, Broadcast, The Mower Music: Nobody's Sweetheart; Mckenzie and Condon's Chicagoans One Hour: Mound City Blues Blowers Produced by Lyn Lockwood and Gavin Hogg Please email Lyn at plsdeputychair@gmail.com with any questions or comments PLS Membership, events, merchandise and information: philiplarkin.com
Today's poem, from the delightfully clever Wendy Cope, epitomizes the rare and complicated light verse form: the double-dactyl.Wendy Cope was raised in Kent, England, where her parents often recited poetry to her. She earned a BA in history and trained as a teacher at Oxford University. Cope taught in primary schools for many years before publishing her first book of poetry, Making Cocoa for Kingsley Amis (1986). The collection was an incredible success, selling tens of thousands of copies in the UK. It also announced Cope's remarkable talents for parody, word play, dexterity with received forms, and the use of humor to address grave topics. In the Los Angeles Review of Books, critic and poet A.M. Juster declared, “one has to go back to Byron to find a poet as consistently witty, wide-ranging, and technically outstanding as Cope.”Cope's poetry collections include Serious Concerns (1992); If I Don't Know (2001), shortlisted for the Whitbread Poetry Award; Two Cures for Love: Selected Poems 1979–2006 (2008); Family Values (2011); Christmas Poems (2017), a collection of new and previously published Christmas-themed work; and Anecdotal Evidence (2018). She is the author of the prose collection Life, Love and the Archers (2015) and two books for children, Twiddling Your Thumbs (1988) and The River Girl (1991), and the editor of numerous anthologies, including, The Faber Book of Bedtime Stories (1999).Cope has received a Cholmondeley Award and a Michael Braude Award for Light Verse from the American Academy of Arts and Letters. In 2010, she was awarded an Order of the British Empire. She is a Fellow of the Royal Society of Literature and lives in Winchester, England.-bio via Poetry Foundation Get full access to The Daily Poem Podcast at dailypoempod.substack.com/subscribe
We're back with a live studio audience! Season 3 kicks off in my beloved hometown of Margate for what will hopefully be a monthly occurrence of being joined by a special guest to share something old, something new, something borrowed and something blue. To kick off this chapter/season I've got fan fave Helen Seymour for a glorious time including a dragon's den pitch, some in-depth detective work, Wendy Cope's legendary orange poem and a garage track about Greta Thunberg. What is not to love?
Lords: * Alexicographic * https://twitter.com/alexicographic * https://www.twitch.tv/damaplaysgames * Andrew * https://kittenm4ster.neocities.org/ Topics: * The 3-food problem: what 3 foods are pairwise good but bad all together? * Talking loudly during movie trailers as an act of anticapitalist subversion * Moon Mode on your phone camera is probably just pasting a good picture of the moon over your bad one. * https://in.mashable.com/tech/3114/are-the-moon-shots-from-the-huawei-p30-pro-fake * The Orange by Wendy Cope * https://gladdestthing.com/poems/the-orange * Learning Italian from a cartoon dog * Being able to identify McElroy fans by how they complement my woodworking * https://www.themcelroy.family/2020/7/31/21348515/maxfundrive-2020-how-to-fake-an-interest-in-woodworking * RIP List of Video Games Considered Artistic * https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Articlesfordeletion/Listofvideogamesconsidered_artistic * https://www.everywhereist.com/2021/12/bros-restaurant-lecce-we-eat-at-the-worst-michelin-starred-restaurant-ever/ * https://www.documentcloud.org/documents/21152082-declaration-by-chef-floriano-pellegrino Microtopics: * kittenm4ster's PICO-8 games. * Vibing with the Alfonzo's Bowling Challenge ethos. * A game that is implemented in under 8000 tokens. * The ideal game pitch. * Chocolate and cheese and something. * Choccoli. * Chocolate and gravy. * A lukewarm Americano. * A bunch of foodies who really know their foodstuffs. * A fish being strangled by Red Vines. * A GPU that has food inside of it. * The Turing test for whether computers can taste foods. * Asking Chat GPT what three foods you can combine to create a bomb in your kitchen. * Whether Gallium has calories. * Three people on a podcast who all think "trailers" should come after the movie * Finding out about a movie by seeing a trailer in a movie theater even though trailers are constantly spilling out of every screen you own. * Getting the wiggles out. * How to make the lives of people who enjoy looking at ads a little bit worse. * Yelling "fire" before the movie starts so fewer people pay attention to the pre-movie ads. * Wanting to become the reason all movies have "no leopards in the theater" PSAs now. * A toddler watching Youtube, yelling "no!" and throwing the phone on the ground when an ad plays. * Pushing the lever to receive your stochastic reward. * Youtube deciding you've seen enough ads lately and taking pity on you. * Trying to explain to a four year old how to play a light gun game but the game is over before you finish explaining. * The Space Alien Busting Song. * Drawing new mountains on the moon to test your camera's moon mode. * Here's the moon again. * A filter to replace pictures of your wife with the moon. * A Snapchat filter that makes you feel like you used to be attractive. * A filter that takes your bad photos of the moon and makes them even worse. * The worst bunny in the moon. * A good poem that rhymes. * Turtle metaconsistency. * Enormous and hilarious oranges. * Good art here, you guys. * Reading poetry in the original Helvetica. * BorgiaPro on various font downloading sites. * A cartoon that is entertaining even if you are not learning Italian. * Finding Armando's old hat in the attic. * Asking the clouds to move so that your hat can protect you from the sun. * Working within a constraint that produces delightful nonsense. * Photocopying yourself to create a black and white clone. * What drugs they'll give to kids in what countries. * Growing up but continuing to take the same drugs. * A little girl who is also a dog. * Subtitles that don't match what's being said aloud. * Watching Italian TV using a VPN. * The Andrew Lloyd Weber musical with the roller skates. * Roller bladers dancing in weird futuristic costumes. * Having positive fun experiences with language. * Learning a new language while skydiving. * Hiring an experienced skydiver who can give you foreign language lessons while you're both falling from a plane. * Getting bored while skydiving and looking at your phone but there's no WiFi up there. * How McElroy fans compliment someone's woodworking. * How to Fake an Interest in Woodworking. * Arguing about whether games are art. * All the games that anyone's ever called art. * Finding information about a deleted page on Wikipedia. * Philosophical debate on the creative qualia of electronic structured play. (Roger Ebert has a subheading.) * Whether the List of Zombie Video Games on Wikipedia includes philosophical zombies. * Whether the List of Zombie Video Games on Wikipedia includes voodoo zombies. * What Casinos are trying to do to attract kids who like video games. * Whether Lechuck is a voodoo zombie or a Romero zombie. * Hohokum. * Finding a bunch of snakes that each have different names. * What happens when you collect all the things. (Art.) * List of Paintings Considered Artistic. * Gimmick food that is more about the experience of eating a weird thing than the food itself. * A restaurant that doesn't have plates and just pours the food into your cupped hands.
CW for this episode: Medical stuff & needles; suicide and self-harm; drug use Mary and Wyatt sit down for an goosebump-inducing hour-long session with psychic medium Rebecca LoCicero. Of course we cry a little; it's the Manic Episodes, after all. Also on the agenda: AI-generated lies, the 9th anniversary of Mary's Grammy performance, and poems by Wendy Cope and Ferit Edgü.
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Heidi and Ellen welcome the sign of Libra, the fall equinox, and the beginning of a new season. Libra is a month when we ask, What is fair? What is just? As the Sun enters Libra, we want to work on our relationships — within the family and in the world at large. It is a pivotal month when three planets (Mercury, Saturn, and Pluto) move direct and we begin new cycles. Heidi and Ellen also talk about the chart of Queen Elizabeth II (a Taurus!) (34:09) and the Libran GOAT Serena Williams (41:09). Heidi reads the beautiful poem, On A Train by Wendy Cope (46:36).
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Năm 2017, khi Donald Trump đắc cử tổng thống Mỹ, hàng triệu người cũng gọi đó là ngày American Idiot thêm một lần nữa thành hiện thực, và sau đó, hàng triệu triệu người tìm đến thơ ca. Tờ Huffington Post thậm chí còn đăng một bài báo: 18 bài thơ giúp bạn vượt qua những thời đại bất an. Người ta nhắc lại Emily Dickinson, và cả Maya Angelou nữa. Hay một bài thơ của Wendy Cope cũng được tất cả cùng chia sẻ.Không biết thơ ca có thật sự giúp mọi người vượt qua được những thời đại bất an hay không, nhưng chúng ta vẫn luôn đọc thơ, và cần thơ, theo một cách nào đó. Bởi, như Ocean Vuong từng nói, với thơ, chúng ta được mặc kệ thời gian.Thông qua 3 cuốn sách, Phan Chung và Thư Vũ - 2 host của tập podcast này, muốn nhắc lại một điều, rằng chức năng lớn nhất của thơ ca (dù không hữu ích cho ai), luôn đẹp đẽ và chân thành, trong một thế giới có quá nhiều biến động và chia rẽ như thế này. 3 cuốn sách đó là:Thơ cần thiết cho ai? Nguyễn Đức TùngGió và tình yêu thổi trên đất nước tôi - Lưu Quang VũSữa và mật - Rupi KaurThông tin tác giảNguyễn Đức Tùng: hiện sống và viết ở Canada, nổi bật trong tư cách một nhà nghiên cứu phê bình, đã xuất bản 3 tập tiểu luận: “Thơ đến từ đâu”, “Thơ cần thiết cho ai”, “40 năm thơ Việt hải ngoại”.Lưu Quang Vũ: nhà văn, nhà biên kịch xuất sắc của nền văn học hiện đại. Mặc dù chỉ hoạt động trong nghệ thuật 10 năm thế nhưng khối lượng tác phẩm Lưu Quang Vũ để lại khiến cho nhiều người phải nể phục.Rupi Kaur: nhà thơ, họa sĩ minh họa và tác giả người Ấn Độ-Canada. Kaur đã trở nên nổi tiếng trên Instagram và Tumblr bằng cách chia sẻ những bài thơ ngắn kèm theo những bức ảnh của cô ấy.
Wendy Cope and Lauren Mobley share strategies for waking up their spaces, collections, programming, collaboration and support for their entire school communities! I would like to thank composer Nazar Rybak at Hooksounds.com for the music you've heard today. Capstone *use UNITED for $20 off $100 or more on print and ebooks AANHPI resources at Capstone Editable PD Certificate FAQ's and ISO (In search of…) Online Doctoral Programs SLU Playlists E81 Creating Community with Wendy Cope Wendy Social: Twitter and IG @commonsdodgenTwitter @wendypcopeLibrary website Blog Lauren Social: Twitter and IG @mobleyinthemix IG @ncms.mediacenter TikTok @ncms_mediacenter Website
Wendy Cope OBE (born 21 July 1945) is a contemporary English poet. She read history at St Hilda's College, Oxford. She now lives in Ely, Cambridgeshire, with her husband, the poet Lachlan Mackinnon.Bio via Wikipedia See acast.com/privacy for privacy and opt-out information.
In this month's bookclub mini-episode, Rebecca and Laurie chat about Christmas Poems by Wendy Cope. The book is available here: faber.co.uk/product/9780571338580-christmas-poems/
In the second November episode of 2021, I explore a festive Titanic cosmic cruise from an episode of Doctor Who, some seasonal poetry from Wendy Cope, and some history and covers of Fairytale of New York by The Pogues & Kirsty MacColl.
Grace to you and peace from God, our Creator and our Savior, Jesus Christ, Amen. I want to begin this morning with a little bit of poetry. This poem is a favorite of mine. Admittedly I am not an expert on poetry and I'm not sure how I stumbled across this poem by British poet Wendy Cope, but this poem will help frame the way we approach our Gospel text today... The post Twentieth Sunday after Pentecost appeared first on Wicker Park Lutheran Church.
Poetry can be really delightful, but it can also feel really inaccessible. In this episode, we talked about our favorite poems, how to discover poems you love (and disregard everything else tbh), and then how to find poems that fit your specs. Stick around after the outro to hear our editor Lucas reading some selections.This episode was produced by Rachel and Sally and edited by Lucas Nguyen. Our logo was designed by Amber Seger (@rocketorca). Our theme music is by Tiny Music. MJ Brodie transcribed this episode. Follow us on Twitter @OhILikeThatPod.Things we talked about: The Anti-Sleep Routine That's Actually Helped My Insomnia by Terri Pous for Apartment Therapy The mockingbird that humiliated Sally on her own front porchVerse Dailyr/PoetryPoetryFoundation.orgMatthew Ogle's poetry newsletter Pomestacy-marie ishmael, whose newsletter The Main Event, often includes poetry Poetry Rx: There Are Enough Ballrooms in You by Sarah Kay for the Paris ReviewThe Ultimate List of (Non-Cheesy) Wedding Poems by Najva Sol for A Practical WeddingAre You Using a Poem in Your Wedding? by Emily Threlkeld for A Practical WeddingJapanese Death Poems: Written by Zen Monks and Haiku Poets on the Verge of Death by Yoel HoffmannDevotions: The Selected Poems of Mary Oliver by Mary OliverDew point versus humidityWeather Time Machine: Old ships' logs are giving scientists new insights into the past and future of the earth's changing climate by Feilding Cage for ReutersRachel's favorite poems:The Orange by Wendy CopeDifferences of Opinions by Wendy CopeFrida Kahlo to Marty McConnell by Marty McConnellOn This the 100th Anniversary of the Sinking of the Titanic, We Reconsider the Buoyancy of the Human Heart by Laura Lamb Brown-LavoieSally's favorite poems:Por que cantamos/Why We Sing by Mario BenedettiPoem (The day gets slowly started) by James SchuylerResolution # 1,003 by June JordanPoems read by Lucas after the outro:Banyan by Mary OliverA selection of Japanese death poems from here
Brent L. Top is a professor of Church History & Doctrine at Brigham Young University, but will be retiring in July after 45 years as a religious educator within the Church Educational System, the last 34 years at BYU. He served for several years as Dean of Religious Education, and prior to that as department chair and associate dean. He is the author of more than 20 books, primarily directed to the Latter-day Saint audience, and scores of articles and book chapters in both academic and church venues. Brent has served in many capacities within the Church, including as bishop, counselor in a stake presidency, president of the Illinois Peoria Mission, and president of the Pleasant Grove Utah East Stake. He currently he serves as a sealer in the Mount Timpanogos Temple and as a Gospel Doctrine Sunday School teacher in his ward. Brent is married to his high school sweetheart, the former Wendy Cope from Idaho Falls, Idaho, and they have four children, 24 grandchildren, and one great-grandchild. In this podcast, Kurt and Brent discuss leadership within the context of callings such as Bishoprics, Stake Presidencies and Mission Presidencies. They relate the experiences of these callings to other leadership opportunities and discuss how to better prepare missionaries, serve in leadership capacities, and relate those experiences to living the gospel. Highlights 8:05 Leadership Experiences: 10:09 “As Leaders we need to remember who's kingdom it is.” Serving is often overwhelming. “I had to remember it's not about MY plans.” Sometimes what I thought wasn't what was needed. I often heard the Lord tell me “These are my missionaries; this is my church I will not let you fail.” 14:37 I have had feelings about callings, names etc. and I pushed those away. They were uncomfortable. I found that often those times were the Lord preparing me. Tells story of being called to Stake President and needed to find his counselors within 15 minutes. The Lord had been preparing him to call those counselors by bringing people to his mind previously. 16:49 No matter how the call is received (by shock or with inspiration that it was coming) the Lord is giving us life experiences, insights, thoughts so that we don't come into his kingdom to serve totally unprepared. Expectations when called as a Bishop? 17:41 Two things I learned: No matter if you're 30 or 60 when the keys are conferred upon you, you are changed. Things change. I began focused organizationally. The Lord wanted me to focus individually. He wanted me to Love. Stake President vs Mission President Stake Presidents are “therapists” to many bishops. They have nowhere else to turn. As a Stake President I had a lot of people to support me in my calling. There were many who served well and lightened my load. As a Mission President I was literally in charge of making sure my 150-200 missionaries stayed alive! I was responsible for them at all times. That can feel overwhelming. Mission Presidents see non-stop action. Mission Presidents don't have the supporting roles Stake Presidents do. It often feels lonely. ADVICE for leading: *The key in one-on-one leadership 22:57 I was often overwhelmed when I thought of all the moving pieces. Things are more manageable one on one. The church and therefore the kingdom of God is really no bigger than an individual or a family. The more complex the leadership the less effective: The more I focused on administration, the more I micromanaged. The more I did that, the less I represented the Lord. As a mission president my time with each individual was so small. I knew the time I did get really had to matter. Interviews really had to be used to connect to the individual, they needed to feel loved. Meeting had to have meaning. They needed to provide a way for individuals to connect with one another. 29:00 BEST PRACTICES for INTERVIEW (esp. EQ/RS Presidents) Your calling is a calling of Love.
Brent L. Top is a professor of Church History & Doctrine at Brigham Young University, but will be retiring in July after 45 years as a religious educator within the Church Educational System, the last 34 years at BYU. He served for several years as Dean of Religious Education, and prior to that as department chair and associate dean. He is the author of more than 20 books, primarily directed to the Latter-day Saint audience, and scores of articles and book chapters in both academic and church venues. Brent has served in many capacities within the Church, including as bishop, counselor in a stake presidency, president of the Illinois Peoria Mission, and president of the Pleasant Grove Utah East Stake. He currently he serves as a sealer in the Mount Timpanogos Temple and as a Gospel Doctrine Sunday School teacher in his ward. Brent is married to his high school sweetheart, the former Wendy Cope from Idaho Falls, Idaho, and they have four children, 24 grandchildren, and one great-grandchild. In this podcast, Kurt and Brent discuss leadership within the context of callings such as Bishoprics, Stake Presidencies and Mission Presidencies. They relate the experiences of these callings to other leadership opportunities and discuss how to better prepare missionaries, serve in leadership capacities, and relate those experiences to living the gospel. Highlights 8:05 Leadership Experiences: 10:09 “As Leaders we need to remember who's kingdom it is.” Serving is often overwhelming. “I had to remember it's not about MY plans.” Sometimes what I thought wasn't what was needed. I often heard the Lord tell me “These are my missionaries; this is my church I will not let you fail.” 14:37 I have had feelings about callings, names etc. and I pushed those away. They were uncomfortable. I found that often those times were the Lord preparing me. Tells story of being called to Stake President and needed to find his counselors within 15 minutes. The Lord had been preparing him to call those counselors by bringing people to his mind previously. 16:49 No matter how the call is received (by shock or with inspiration that it was coming) the Lord is giving us life experiences, insights, thoughts so that we don't come into his kingdom to serve totally unprepared. Expectations when called as a Bishop? 17:41 Two things I learned: No matter if you're 30 or 60 when the keys are conferred upon you, you are changed. Things change. I began focused organizationally. The Lord wanted me to focus individually. He wanted me to Love. Stake President vs Mission President Stake Presidents are “therapists” to many bishops. They have nowhere else to turn. As a Stake President I had a lot of people to support me in my calling. There were many who served well and lightened my load. As a Mission President I was literally in charge of making sure my 150-200 missionaries stayed alive! I was responsible for them at all times. That can feel overwhelming. Mission Presidents see non-stop action. Mission Presidents don't have the supporting roles Stake Presidents do. It often feels lonely. ADVICE for leading: *The key in one-on-one leadership 22:57 I was often overwhelmed when I thought of all the moving pieces. Things are more manageable one on one. The church and therefore the kingdom of God is really no bigger than an individual or a family. The more complex the leadership the less effective: The more I focused on administration, the more I micromanaged. The more I did that, the less I represented the Lord. As a mission president my time with each individual was so small. I knew the time I did get really had to matter. Interviews really had to be used to connect to the individual, they needed to feel loved. Meeting had to have meaning. They needed to provide a way for individuals to connect with one another. 29:00 BEST PRACTICES for INTERVIEW (esp. EQ/RS Presidents) Your calling is a calling of Love.
Hello, again lovely people! I am feeling so wonderful spring break is coming soon and I'm turning 18 and I'm so grateful for my life I hope y'all are feeling alright or at least ready for Spring Break!
情人节by Wendy CopeMy heart has made its mind up,And I'm afraid it's you.Whatever you've got lined up,My heart has made its mind up.And if you can't be signed up,This year, next year will do.My heart has made its mind up,And I'm afraid it's you.我的心，已下定决心,怕是非你莫属。不管你有什么计划,我的心，已下定决心。若你今年不愿加入，其实明年也可。我的心，已下定决心,怕是非你莫属。
情人节by Wendy CopeMy heart has made its mind up,And I'm afraid it's you.Whatever you've got lined up,My heart has made its mind up.And if you can't be signed up,This year, next year will do.My heart has made its mind up,And I'm afraid it's you.我的心，已下定决心,怕是非你莫属。不管你有什么计划,我的心，已下定决心。若你今年不愿加入，其实明年也可。我的心，已下定决心,怕是非你莫属。
Theatres, museums, clubs, cinemas, the whole cultural sphere is under lockdown in many places all over Europe and beyond. Yet culture still has a key role in many people's lives, watching movies, making music or fine art, reading novels, playing complex games – and reading poetry. Poetry, so it seemed in more than one of this podcast's past conversations, has even gained attention in the pandemic, as a number of people have turned to poems to find focus, solace, entertainment and inspiration, to name but a few ways to appreciate poetry. So it is high time that we have a poet as a guest in this podcast – and we are honoured and delighted that Wendy Cope has agreed to join in for today's episode.
Poet Wendy Cope joins our editorial assistant Freya Parr over Zoom from her home in Cambridgeshire to discuss how her enduring relationship with classical music has changed throughout the course of her life, with various careers as a primary school teacher, journalist and now poet. Introduced to the piano at the age of five, music has been a constant in Wendy’s life, with many of her poems having now been set by the UK’s leading composers. She tells us all about this fascinating process, and how it feels to hear your words set to music. Website: classical-music.com/podcastsRecordings featured:Mozart: Serenade No. 13 ‘Eine Kleine Nachtmusik’: I. Allegretto (Vienna Philharmonic/Herbert von Karajan Warner Classics 4768762)Bach: ‘Wachet auf, ruft uns die Stimme’ Cantata BWV 140 (English Baroque Soloists, Monteverdi Choir/John Eliot Gardiner Deutsche Grammophon 4807512)Bach: Concerto for Two Violins and Strings in D minor (2nd movement): Isabelle Faust, Bernhard Forck (violins), Akademie für Alte Musik Berlin Harmonia Mundi HMM90233536)Schubert: Im Frühling (Ian Bostridge (tenor), Julius Drake (piano) Warner Classics 5563472)Peter Maxwell Davies: Farewell to Stromness (Peter Maxwell Davies (piano) Naxos 950161)Tibetan Singing Bowls and Ocean Waves Sounds for Relaxation See acast.com/privacy for privacy and opt-out information.
Introducing a brand new season of BBC Music Magazine’s Music to my Ears podcast. Over the coming weeks, we’ll be joined by a raft of famous faces from the classical music world and beyond, including comedian Deborah Frances-White, former Guardian editor-in-chief Alan Rusbridger, composer Errollyn Wallen, poet Wendy Cope and conductor Vasily Petrenko. Join us for a new episode every Wednesday and subscribe now to stay updated. See acast.com/privacy for privacy and opt-out information.
A selection of poems from 'Making Cocoa For Kingsley Amis' and 'Serious Concerns'Apologies to anybody who downloaded an earlier file that was out of synch.
Wendy Cope is one of England’s most popular and widely-read contemporary poets. Wendy was born in Erith, Kent. Her father was 29 years older than her mother and she was sent to boarding school at the age of seven. Although English was her favourite subject at school, in a bid to defy her English teacher’s expectations, she read history at Oxford. Following graduation she became a primary school teacher. After the death of her father in 1971, Wendy entered psychoanalysis in 1973 and turned to writing poetry. Having attended evening classes in creative writing, one of her poems was published in a collection which brought her to the attention of Faber and Faber. Her first volume of poetry, Making Cocoa For Kingsley Amis, was published in 1986, and became an instant success, and she gave up teaching to become a full time writer. She has since published four volumes of a poetry: Serious Concerns (1992), If I Don’t Know (2001), Family Values (2011) and Anecdotal Evidence (2018) as well as two volumes for children, Twiddling Your Thumbs (1988) and The River Girl (1991). In 2011, Wendy sold her entire personal archive to the British Library, which consisted of 15 boxes of manuscript, including several unpublished early works. Wendy lives in Ely and is married to fellow poet, Lachlan Mackinnon. Presenter: Lauren Laverne Producer: Cathy Drysdale Show less
In this episode we discuss our commissioned piece 'Orange Peel' by Sophie Law and the poems 'A Birthday' by Edwin Muir and 'The Orange' by Wendy Cope.
Hear how Wendy Cope motivates her readers and sponsors clubs and activity nights to create a library community. I would like to thank composer Nazar Rybak at Hooksounds.com for the music you’ve heard today. IG: @woodstockmslibrary Twitter: @wendypcope 2015 Media Specialist of the Year Woodstock Middle School website Menu of Services (TY Sarah Sansbury) 2018-2019 Annual Report 2019-2020 Annual Report Impossible Possibilities blog
Episode 7 features one of my favourite poets I've come across since moving to Kent - Neelam Saredia-Brayley is a fantastic writer and performer and even managed to upgrade my textbook response of "come onn" to an "Oh My God!" in this episode.We cover #NaPoWriMo, lockdown haircuts, Shrek and whales among other things - for my something borrowed I share a favourite from the Wendy Cope and Neelam stops me in my tracks with a reading of Birthday by Andrea Gibson.You can follow Neelam on instagram HereYou can see Andrea reading their poem HereTune in to watch live Wednesdays on my instagram HereOr donate to my Ko-fi page Heremuch love x
Zolang de coronacrisis duurt deelt Daan Doesborgh in een wekelijks Poëziebulletin audioboodschappen van dichters met een wereld die wel wat hoop en poëzie kan gebruiken. Deze week gedichten van en door Lucebert, Wendy Cope, Sanne van Kempen, Daniël Vis, Piet Gerbrandy, Alex Philippa, Paul Celan, Christiane Gronenberg, Babs Gons, Koleka Putuma, Fernando Pessoa, Thomas Möhlmann en Merlijn Huntjens. Muziek door Winterjong.
Stress Management. Ways of coping with stress are get a drink of water, read a book, listen to music, exercise, color or draw, take five deep breaths, count to 10, talk to someone, take a walk, play a musical instrument, eat well, dance, get a good night's sleep, and meditation on artwork.- Unhealthy ways of dealing with stress are smoking cigarettes, drinking alcohol and doing drugs.- What happens to a persons body when they are stressed? 1. The immune system can be compromised making us susceptible to frequent infections. 2. Musculoskeletal system-our muscles tense up when we are stressed. This is the body's way of guarding itself against itself against injury. With taut muscles, tension-type headaches are very common. 3. Respiratory system-the heart beats faster when one is under stress. This triggers the conditions like asthma or panic attacks. Cardiovascular system-continued levels of high stress can have adverse effects on the heart and the other organs related to it. This leads to problems with blood pressure and having adverse effects on other organs of the body.- In psychology, stress is a feeling of strain and pressure. Stress is a type of psychological pain. Small amounts of stress may be desired, beneficial, and even healthy. Positive stress helps improve athletic performance. It is beneficial for motivation, adaptation, and reaction to the environment. But excessive amounts of stress may lead to bodily harm. Stress can increase the risk of strokes, heart attacks, ulcers, and mental illnesses such as depression.- Stress can happen from an outside or inside environment.- Eustress is positive stress. And distress is negative stress.- Stress can come about from-death of a spouse, divorce, marital separation, imprisonment, death of a close family member, personal injury or illness, marriage, getting fired from work, retirement, change in health of family member, pregnancy, sexual difficulties, gain a new family member, business adjustment, change in financial state, death of a close friend, change in financial state, change to different line of work, change in arguments, major mortgage, foreclosure of mortgage or loan, change in responsibilities at work, child leaving home, trouble with in-laws, spouse starts or stops work, begin or end school, change in living conditions, trouble with boss, change in working hours or conditions, change in residence, change in schools, change in recreation, change in church activities, change in social activities, change in sleeping habits, change in number of family reunions, change in eating habits, vacation, minor violation of law.- Also. Another thing is the hormone cortisol. Cortisol is a stress hormone released by the adrenal glands. The hormone is important for helping your body deal eith stressful situations, as your brain triggers its release in response to many different kinds of stress.- When cortisol levels are too high for too long, this hormone can hurt you more than it helps.- As you get older, high levels may cause weight gain and high blood pressure, disrupt sleep, negatively impact mood, reduce your energy levels and contribute to diabetes.- Now. I will close out with a poem titled, Flowers by Wendy Cope. Flowers- Some men never think of it·You did. You'd come along·And say you'd nearly bought me flowers·But something had gone wrong.·The shop was closed. Or you had doubts-·The sort that minds like ours·Dream up incessantly. You thought·I might not want your flowers.·It made me smile and hug you then.·Now I can only smile.·But, look, the flowers you nearly bought·Have lasted all this while.
A traditional celebration of the Birth of Jesus in Bible verses, poetry and some of the most beautiful carols and seasonal music. In the space of one hour you will hear : Once in Royal David's City (The Choirboys) Bible Reading - Isaiah Ch9 Vs 1-7 read by David Suchet For Unto Us Child Is Born (from Handel's Messiah, performed by the Glasgow Festival Chorus and Orchestra Bible Reading - Isaiah Ch9 11 Vs 1-9 read by David Suchet Unto Us Is Born A Son (Huddersfield Choral Society) Bible Reading - Luke Chapter 1 - The Annunciation - read by David Suchet The Angel Gabriel From Heaven Came (Celtic Christmas Collection) Bible Reading - Luke tells of the Birth of Jesus - read by David Suchet The Nativity Carol (John Rutter - performed by the Clare College Singers and Orchestra) Poem - Mary's Burden by Eleanor Farjeon - read by Anne Clarke Coventry Carol (Celtic Christmas Collection) Poem - BC - AD by U.A. Fanthorpe - read by Anne Clarke O Little Town of Bethlehem (The Coventry Singers and The St Michael Singers) Bible Reading - Luke Chapter 1 - The angels appear to the shepherds - read by David Suchet The First Nowell (Choir of Royal Holloway - arrangement from Winter Songs by Ola Gjeilo) Bible Reading - Luke Chapter 1 - The shepherds go to the manger - read by David Suchet While Shepherds Watched Their Flocks By Night (The Coventry Singers and The St Michael Singers) Bible Reading - Gospel of Matthew - The coming of the Kings - read by David Suchet Poem - Kings Came Riding by Charles William - read by Anne Clarke We Three Kings of Orient Are (The Coventry Singers and The St Michael Singers) Bible Reading - The Gospel of Matthew - The Kings are warned about Herod - read by David Suchet Poem - Innocent's Song by Charles Causley - read by Anne Clarke In The Bleak Midwinter - Instrumental by Peddyr Cubberley (whistles) and Mera Royle (Harp) with poem - A Christmas Carol - by Christina Rossetti read by Anne Clarke Poem - Oxen by Thomas Hardy - read by Anne Clarke Tra Va Ruggit Creest - Manx Carol by Curjin Cooidjak Poem - What The Donkey Saw by U.A. Fanthorpe - read by Anne Clarke Silent Night (The Coventry Singers and The St Michael Singers Poem - Cathedral Carol Service by Wendy Cope read by Anne Clarke O Come All Ye Faithful - sung by Susan Boyle
Wendy Cope invites me into her book-filled house in Ely, Cambridgeshire. Wendy started her career as a highly successful outsider to the poetry world – seen by some as an interloper – and is now one of its most respected talents. She tells me about the backlash to her first bestseller, Making Cocoa for Kingsley Amis; how she pushed through it, and what she’s learnt. Logo design by Ben Neale
In this episode of Authors' Matters, we chat with Wendy Cope, renowned contemporary poet, about how important emotional, as well as financial, support is and how the internet isn’t always the best place for poets.Tony Bradman, children’s author and ALCS Chair, joins us to encourage members to vote in the 2019 ALCS Board election and we catch up with Dr Jim Parker, PLR International Co-Ordinator, at the 13th PLR International conference where he tells us about what’s been happening in PLR schemes around the world.John Dougherty, children’s author and poet, tells us what copyright means to him and finally Alice Donovan, Communications Executive at ALCS, gives us a rundown of all the top figures from the latest ALCS Distribution.
In this week’s episode, award-winning poets Fiona Benson and Julia Copus join Rachael and Jack in the studio and there are audio postcards from Morgan Parker, Bobby Parker and Wendy Cope. See here ( https://www.faber.co.uk/blog/the-faber-poetry-podcast-fiona-benson-julia-copus) for the full show notes, author bios and links. Trigger warning: Please note that this episode’s second audio postcard features details relating to sexual trauma. Listen to this episode and subscribe to the podcast so you don’t miss forthcoming episodes from the new season and (should you be so inclined) please rate and review us so that other poetry-lovers can discover the show. Thank you for listening!
In this episode, author Sarah Marie Griffin talks about her teenage pilgrimages to Chapters Bookstore, love of video games and fierce reciting of Wendy Cope poetry at parties. Books mentioned in the episode include:It's a Busy, Busy World - Richard Scarry Malory Towers/St Clare's/The Secret Seven - Enid Blyton The Magician's Nephew/The Chronicles of Narnia - C.S Lewis Blackadder: The Whole Damn Dynasty - Ben Elton, John Lloyd, Richard Curtis, Rowan Atkinson Desperate Housewives:Behind Closed Doors Monty Python's Flying Circus - Complete Scripts A Heartbreaking Work of Staggering Genius - Dave EggersPerks of Being a Wallflower - Stephen Chbosky Promising Young Women - Caroline O'Donoghue This Is How You Lose Her - Junot DiazUlysses - James Joyce The Twilight Saga - Stephanie Myer Tangleweed & Brine - Deirdre Sullivan Only Ever Yours/Asking For It/Almost Love - Louise O'Neill Last Ones Left Alive - Sarah Davis Goff The Secret History - Donna Tartt Oh My God What A Complete Aisling - Emer McLysaght & Sarah Breen The Importance of Being Aisling - Emer McLysaght & Sarah Breen Watermelon/Rachel's Holiday - Marian Keyes Perfectly Preventable Deaths - Deirdre Sullivan All The Bad Apples - Moira Fowley Doyle Bluets - Maggie Nelson If Not, Winter:Fragments of Sappho - Anne CarsonWomen - Charles Bukowski Salt - Nayyirah Waheed A Line Made By Walking - Sara Baume Wine For A Shotgun - Marty McConnell This One Summer - Mariko Tamaki The Orange - Wendy Cope The Secret Diary of Laura Palmer -Jennifer Lynch On This The 100th Anniversary Of The Sinking Of The Titanic, We Reconsider The Buoyancy Of The Human Heart - Laura Lamb Brown Lavoie The Dissection Room - Doireann Ní Ghríofa Follow This Thread: A Maze Book To Get Lost In - Henry Eliot Paul Takes The Form Of A Mortal Girl - Andrea Lawlor Night Boat to Tangier - Kevin BarryCity of Bohane - Kevin Barry
We're back! Have you missed us? Dolly's tits-deep in her Everything I Know About Love tour (buy tickets here: faneproductions.com/dolly and the paperback is out now) and Pandora's essay, The Authentic Lie, for independent crowd-funding publisher, The Pound Project, is now open for pledging. Buy in online or mini book form, here! (Plus, there's a foreword by Elizabeth Day.) https://www.kickstarter.com/projects/poundproject/the-pound-project-part-four-pandora-sykesThis week we discuss everything we've been enjoying since Christmas - what we've been watching, listening to and reading (a lot.) It's all listed below. Sign the The High Low's sub-editor and freelance journalist Anna Codrea Rado's brilliant open letter to the media, to secure #FairPayForFreelancers http://bit.ly/fairpayforfreelancers. Donate to help The Pool's staff and freelancers get paid: https://www.gofundme.com/help-the-pool-staff-and-freelancers-get-paid?pc=&rcid=r01-154905562015-fce176adade44eb7 E-mail thehighlowshow@gmail.comTweet us @thehighlowshow Books Notes To Self, by Emilie Pine Ordinary People, by Diana EvansAll That Man Is, by David SzalayBecoming, by Michelle ObamaDuped, by Abby EllinThe Tattooist of Auschwitz, by Heather MorrisOnce More We Saw Stars, by Jayson GreeneVox, by Christina DalcherSmall Great Things, by Jodi PicoultA Spark of Light, by Jodi PicoultMy Year or Rest and Relaxation, by Odessa Moshfegh Swan Song, by Kelleigh Greenberg-JephcottBottled Goods, by Sophie van LlewynPutney, by Sofka ZinovieffInstead of a Letter, by Diana Athill The Orange, by Wendy Cope Watching & ListeningBros: After The Screaming Stops, available on BBC iPlayerOrigins With James Andrew Miller, on Sex And The City Bohemian Rhapsody, at cinemas nowThe Favourite, at cinemas nowMary Poppins Returns, at cinemas now Emily Blunt, interviewed on Fresh Air Alison Janney, on WTFSex Education, on Netflix nowFyre: The Greatest Party That Never Happened, on Netflix now Wendy Cope, on Desert Island DiscsDiana Athill, on Desert Island Discs Journalism Lauren Bravo for foodism https://foodism.co.uk/features/long-reads/romantic-food-myths-and-realities/ The World of Nora Ephron: a reading list https://foodism.co.uk/features/long-reads/romantic-food-myths-and-realities/ The Ten best life mantras of Diana Athill: https://www.telegraph.co.uk/women/life/10-best-life-mantras-brilliant-author-diana-athill/ Diana Athill interviewed for The Lenny Letter: https://www.lennyletter.com/story/diana-athill-interviewDolly's songs about places playlist -
Wendy Cope is one of England’s most popular and widely-read contemporary poets. Wendy was born in Erith, Kent. Her father was 29 years older than her mother and she was sent to boarding school at the age of seven. Although English was her favourite subject at school, in a bid to defy her English teacher’s expectations, she read history at Oxford. Following graduation she became a primary school teacher. After the death of her father in 1971, Wendy entered psychoanalysis in 1973 and turned to writing poetry. Having attended evening classes in creative writing, one of her poems was published in a collection which brought her to the attention of Faber and Faber. Her first volume of poetry, Making Cocoa For Kingsley Amis, was published in 1986, and became an instant success, and she gave up teaching to become a full time writer. She has since published four volumes of a poetry: Serious Concerns (1992), If I Don’t Know (2001), Family Values (2011) and Anecdotal Evidence (2018) as well as two volumes for children, Twiddling Your Thumbs (1988) and The River Girl (1991). In 2011, Wendy sold her entire personal archive to the British Library, which consisted of 15 boxes of manuscript, including several unpublished early works. Wendy lives in Ely and is married to fellow poet, Lachlan Mackinnon. BOOK CHOICE: Compleet Molesworth by Geoffrey Willans LUXURY ITEM: Pen and paper CASTAWAY'S FAVOURITE: Bach’s Double Violin Concerto in D minor Presenter: Lauren Laverne Producer: Cathy Drysdale
Hello and Happy Friday everyone! I am so excited that tomorrow starts the first weekend of December, and I’m looking forward to a lot of festive fun. To start off the season of goodwill and festive cheer, I’m sharing one of my very favourite Wendy Cope poems, The Christmas Life, for this week’s Tea Read. I hope you enjoy having a listen (preferably whilst breaking open the tin of mince pies). Read the show notes: teaandtattlepodcast.com/home/teareads27 Get in touch! Email: teaandtattlepodcast@gmail.com Instagram: Miranda ~ @mirandasnotebook and @mirandasbookcase
This week, Sophie talks about why a grudge is not, and cannot be, a feeling. And if it isn't a feeling, then why do nearly all the available dictionary definitions tell us that it is? What would be a more accurate and helpful definition of the word 'grudge' that doesn't discourage us from holding them? Also in this episode: some brilliant grudge poems by Sophie's two favorite living poets: Wendy Cope and Nic Aubury. The How to Hold a Grudge theme was provided by Annette Armitage, a composer, musician and teacher, and co-writer (with Sophie) of two mystery themed musicals: THE GENERALIST - A MURDER MYSTERY MUSICAL and WORK EXPERIENCE - A MUSICAL LOCKED ROOM MYSTERY.Sophie's new book HOW TO HOLD A GRUDGE: THE POWER OF GRUDGES TO TRANSFORM YOUR LIFE is available now in hardback, eBook and audiobook. Buy now http://smarturl.it/GrudgePodcast
Deborah Frances-White host of podcast The Guilty Feminist joins Catherine Fletcher. Novelist Michèle Roberts reviews a portrait of artist Louise Bourgeois woven from conversations, and comedian and classicist Natalie Haynes discusses co-writing a modern political comedy based on The Assembly Women by Aristophanes, whilst Jeanie O'Hare talks about filling in the gaps in Shakespeare's depiction of Queen Margaret in her new play. Now, Now Louison written by Jean Frémon, translated by Cole Swensen and published by Les Fugitives is out now. Deborah Frances-White has published The Guilty Feminist as a book out now. Women In Power - A Musical Comedy runs at the Nuffield Southampton Theatres from 06 September, 2018 - 29 September, 2018. It has been written by Wendy Cope, Jenny Eclair, Suhayla El-Bushra, Natalie Haynes, Shappi Khorsandi, Brona C Titley and Jess Phillips MP and is directed by Blanche McIntyre. Queen Margaret runs at the Royal Exchange, Manchester from Sept 14th to Oct 6th featuring Jade Anouka as Queen Margaret. Producer: Fiona McLean
Lissadell Last year we went to Lissadell. The sun shone over Sligo Bay And life was good and all was well. The bear, the books, the dinner bell, An air of dignified decay. Last year we went to Lissadell. This year the owners had to sell— It calls […]
In this episode, the Media Specialist extraordinaire from Woodstock Middle School, Wendy Cope, shares ideas on how your classroom doesn't have to be an island. She give ideas for how the librarian can help you make the most of any lesson. Follow Wendy: https://twitter.com/wendypcope Just found us and want to view the archive of previous episodes? Visit https://support.cherokeek12.net/Technology%20Podcasts/Forms/AllItems.aspx
Australian film Sweet Country is an Australian Western set in the 1920s - can there be justice when an aboriginal man kills a white farmer in self defence. High Society is a new exhibition at The Rijksmuseum in Amsterdam - a series of life-size portraits from the masters of art history from Rembrandt to Manet and Velasquez. The National Theatre's latest production stars Rory Kinnear and Anne Marie Duff in Macbeth. Wendy Cope's first collection of poetry in 7 years is Anecdotal Evidence David Byrne has been one of the most consistently inventive and exciting musicians and performers for more than 4 decades. His latest release American Utopia is his first solo album for nearly a decade-and-a-half and looks at the state of the US right now. What does his eye alight upon and what does he make of it...? Tom Sutcliffe's guests are Sir Richard Eyre, Tracy Chevalier and Natalie Haynes. The producer is Oliver Jones.
With Wendy Cope. Presented by Sam Leith.
Half a century after Kenneth Clark's ground-breaking television series on the history of art, Civilisation, the BBC has returned to the same subject - a history of visual culture - but pluralised the name and the number of presenters in the new series. Former television critic of the Financial Times Chris Dunkley and writer and classicist Natalie Haynes review.Wendy Cope is one of the country's best-known and best-loved poets, thanks partly to the fact that her poems are easy to understand and often funny. But they're much more than that: the former poet laureate Andrew Motion said of her that "there is a skip in her step, but these are perfectly serious poems". Her latest collection is Anecdotal Evidence and it reflects on marriage, place, contentment and loss.The works of twenty-three female contemporary artists working in China today are the focus of NOW, a new series of exhibitions across the UK. Curator Tiffany Leung and British-based artist Aowen Jin consider the status of Chinese female artists inside and outside China and to what extent they feel they have artistic freedom in the current political climate .Presenter : Kirsty Lang Producer: Harry Parker.
0728 Thinking Aloud : Wendy Cope, "Differences of Opinion"
Rob's guest this week is the poet Wendy Cope
Not everyone tells the truth. ‘Read my lips: no new taxes.’ ‘This isn’t going to hurt.’ ‘I see no ships, my lord.’ ‘Of course I love you.’ When can we know what to believe? Four out of five of us don’t think politicians tell the truth, according to a recent MORI poll. But is telling the truth always the right or best thing to do? If it isn’t, what happens to trust? If it is, are there different kinds of truth? Do we always want to hear the truth? Do different professions need to have systemically different attitudes to truth-telling? Is there a moral difference between outright lies, falsehoods, deceits, dissimulation and just plain old ‘economy with the actualité’? In October 1013, Intelligence Squared headed to London's Westminster Abbey to discuss truth with a politician (Jack Straw), a journalist (Max Hastings), a scientist (Professor Robert Winston) and a poet (Wendy Cope). See acast.com/privacy for privacy and opt-out information.
With Wendy Cope, Luke Wright, Zoe Wanamaker, Tiffany Watt Smith, Rachel Cooke and Will May. Episode 5 celebrates the sidesplitting, surreal and downright silly side of poetry. Insights and anecdotes come from poets Wendy Cope and Luke Wright, Zoe Wanamaker channels the spirit of Stevie Smith with some fantastic live readings, and Dr Tiffany Watt Smith, of the Queen Mary University of London Centre for the History of the Emotions, helps to keep order with an academic view on laughter. This podcast was produced by Alia Cassam.
Libby Purves meets poet Wendy Cope; performer Julian Clary; poet Patrick Deeley and actor and playwright Carmen Aguirre. Wendy Cope OBE is a poet. A former teacher and television critic, she has written on a variety of topics including education, romance, religion, television and psychoanalysis. She has been commissioned by the Shakespeare Birthplace Trust to write poems to celebrate the 400th anniversary of the playwright's death. In 2011 she donated her archive of correspondence and diaries to the British Library. Her book Life, Love and the Archers is published by Two Roads. Patrick Deeley is an Irish poet and former teacher and principal. He has published six collections of poetry including Decoding Samara and The Bones of Creation. In his memoir, The Hurley Maker's Son, he tells of growing up in rural Ireland with a wood worker father who made hurley sticks in his Galway workshop. The Hurley Maker's Son is published by Doubleday Ireland. Carmen Aguirre is an actor and playwright. She is the daughter of Chilean revolutionaries who, from the age of six, lived in exile in North America and as a young adult actively fought the Chilean dictatorship herself. In her memoir, Mexican Hooker #1: And Other Roles Since the Revolution, she tells of her personal struggles to find her own identity after the revolution. Mexican Hooker #1: And My Other Roles Since the Revolution is published by Portobello Books. Julian Clary is a comedian, performer and writer. He became a household name in the late 1980s and has appeared on numerous TV shows including Strictly Come Dancing, Have I Got News For You and is a regular panellist on BBC Radio 4's Just a Minute. He has starred in West End productions of Taboo and Cabaret, and appears in panto most years. He is on tour in his one man show, the Joy of Mincing and new children's book, the Bolds to the Rescue, is published by Anderson Press. Producer: Paula McGinley.
Wendy Cope talks about her new book, Life, Love and The Archers, at the prestigious Oldie literary lunch at Simpson's in the Strand.
"John Clare, I cried last night for you" wrote Wendy Cope in a poem dedicated to the earlier poet, who overcame monumental setbacks - including a poverty-stricken upbringing and a long struggle with mental illness - to write some of the most sensitive poetry in the English language. At one point he was famous as "the English Robert Burns" but his fame dropped away vertiginously and many people now know him solely for his cri de coeur, "I Am." Clare's biographer, Sir Jonathan Bate, joins Wendy in the studio with Matthew Parris to consider how Clare's life is both inspirational and great. Producer Christine Hall.
Love. Sorrow. Anger. Death. Laughter. God. Sex. Hell. Home. Only one profession can get to the heart of that lot – the poets. And not any old poets but amongst Britain's very best: Wendy Cope, Andrew Motion and Don Paterson – plus Clive James who's been here so long he almost counts as British. They came to the Intelligence Squared stage in April 2011 to read and talk about not just their own poems, but their favourite works by poets from the past. See acast.com/privacy for privacy and opt-out information.
Babylon, a new series from the creators of Peep Show, returns for a series after appearing on Channel 4 as a pilot. Brit Marling and James Nesbitt star in this fly on the wall satire about the police. Documentary film maker Roger Graef reviews. Poet Wendy Cope discusses her new book, Life, Love and the Archers, a collection of her prose which includes reviews, essays and recollections from her childhood. We get a rare glimpse of artistic life in North Korea at an exhibition inside the country's secluded London embassy. And Samira takes part in a new immersive theatre experience from the National Theatre of Wales by attempting to cross the border from England.
As the British Library launches a website devoted to writers' notebooks and manuscripts, Discovering Literature, novelist Lawrence Norfolk takes a look at his own notebooks, and talks to AS Byatt, John Cooper Clarke and David Mitchell about theirs. He's joined in the studio by Wendy Cope, Bidisha, and Rachel Foss of the British Library for a discussion about notebooks, creativity, and how the digital age might be changing literature.
Not everyone tells the truth. ‘Read my lips: no new taxes.’ ‘This isn’t going to hurt.’ ‘I see no ships, my lord.’ ‘Of course I love you.’ When can we know what to believe? Four out of five of us don’t think politicians tell the truth, according to a recent MORI poll. But is telling the truth always the right or best thing to do? If it isn’t, what happens to trust? If it is, are there different kinds of truth? Do we always want to hear the truth? Do different professions need to have systemically different attitudes to truth-telling? Is there a moral difference between outright lies, falsehoods, deceits, dissimulation and just plain old ‘economy with the actualité’? In October 1013, Intelligence Squared headed to London's Westminster Abbey to discuss truth with a politician (Jack Straw), a journalist (Max Hastings), a scientist (Professor Robert Winston) and a poet (Wendy Cope). See acast.com/privacy for privacy and opt-out information.
On Start the Week Andrew Marr discusses the dying art of handwriting with the novelist Philip Hensher. As the typewriter has taken over from the pen, so email is killing off letter-writing, and Diana Athill celebrates the art of correspondence. But the poet Wendy Cope, who has just left thousands of emails to the British Library, welcomes the advent of digital communication, and the philosopher Nigel Warburton tweets, blogs and podcasts. Producer: Katy Hickman.
Ian McMillan is joined by poet Wendy Cope and actor Juliet Stevenson as he announces the winners of this year's Proms Poetry Competition.
Poet Wendy Cope chooses Sonnet 29 as the piece of Shakespeare that inspired her most. Performed by Don Warrington.
Art critic Brian Sewell and the poet Wendy Cope discuss favourite books with Harriett Gilbert: "Evening in the Palace of Reason" by James Gaines, "From the City, From The Plough" by Alexander Baron and "The Moving Toyshop" by Edmund Crispin.
The poetry of Kent-born Cope has charmed readers ever since her first collection, Making Cocoa for Kingsley Amis. In Family Values, she gives it to us straight with verse about religion, childhood and death, all imbued with her trademark wit and honesty.
The poetry of Kent-born Cope has charmed readers ever since her first collection, Making Cocoa for Kingsley Amis. In Family Values she gives it to us straight with verse about religion, childhood and death, all imbued with her trademark wit and honesty. Family Values also holds a few life lessons for friends and relatives: in ‘My Funeral’, she wants no one to overstay their welcome when delivering an elegy while ‘Another Valentine’ aims a slingshot at the forced romanticism of one day in February.
After The Lunch
This episode marks the 100th reading on Classic Poetry Aloud. We look at Wendy Cope and copyright, and dedicate the episode to librarians and those that use libraries. We feature (with the poet's permission) a reading of '30th December'. For Wendy Cope's comments on copyright, see: http://books.guardian.co.uk/comment/story/0,,2223830,00.html For her own readings of her verse: http://www.poetryarchive.org/poetryarchive/singlePoet.do?poetId=5677 Wendy Cope’s books include: If I Don't Know, Faber & Faber, 2001 Serious Concerns, Faber & Faber, 1992 Making Cocoa for Kingsley Amis, Faber & Faber, 1986 Thanks for listening. Comments and requests to: classicpoetryaloud [at] yahoo.co.uk
James Naughtie and a group of listeners celebrate National Poetry week by looking at the work of Wendy Cope, one of Britain's most popular poets. With readings of some of her best known poems.
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