From The Orange and other poems (c) Wendy Cope, reused by permission of Faber and Faber Ltd. Wendy Cope was born in Erith, Kent. After university she worked for fifteen years as a primary-school teacher in London. Her first collection of poems, Making Cocoa for Kingsley Amis was published in 1986. Her Collected Poems will be published in 2024. Her awards include a Cholmondeley Award for poetry (1987) and the American Academy of Arts and Letters Michael Braude Award (1995)