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14/10/2016

Poetry Book Club with Wendy Cope

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A special Poetry Book club with Wendy Cope on Making Cocoa for Kingsley Amis.

Poet Wendy Cope talks to Ian McMillan talks about her celebrated collection Making Cocoa for Kingsley Amis, with questions from the Verb Poetry Book Club audience.

In a special Poetry Book Club edition of The Verb Ian McMillan talks to the poet Wendy Cope about her celebrated collection 'Making Cocoa for Kingsley Amis' (Faber). The programme is recorded in front of The Verb's Poetry Book Club, who have been reading the collection and put their questions to Wendy.

'Making Cocoa for Kingsley Amis' is Wendy Cope's debut poetry collection. The book was a bestseller when it was first published in 1986.

Presenter: Ian McMillan
Producer: Faith Lawrence.

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