Wendy Cope is an English poet who was born in 1945 in Kent. Her first book of poetry, Making Cocoa for Kingsley Amis, was published in 1986. It was a great success, with critics suggesting describing her as one of the most important contemporary poets. Her If I Don’t Know was shortlisted for the Whitbread Poetry Award.
‘Bloody Men’ by Wendy Cope is a short, contemporary poem by a British award-winning author. It uses a metaphor to compare men to buses.
Bloody men are like bloody buses—
You wait for about a year
And as soon as one approaches your stop
Two or three others appear.
‘Another Valentine’ is written by one of the famous English poets, Wendy Cope. This poem deals with the poet’s definition of Valentine’s Day.
Wendy Cope’s ‘Lonely Hearts’ appears in her poetry collection “Making Cocoa for Kingsley Amis”. This ironic piece talks about a speaker’s desperation over finding a perfect match in a lonely heart’s column.
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