Wendy Cope knows not one, but two cures for love. They’re simple and direct – as is her poetry. An award winning English poet, Wendy’s verse has been variously described as wry, insightful and laugh-out-loud funny. In her first collection, ‘Making Cocoa for Kingsley Amis’ (1986) she parodied the likes of T.S Eliot (who knew The Wasteland could work so well as a limerick?) and Sir Philip Sydney with great success. When a critic described her humorous approach as ‘both her strength and her limitation,’ she responded:
Floribben to State dinners to culinary classics to wine and cheeses from Down Under amidst a chocoholic spread awaits in the first quarter in 2010 at Mount Lavinia Hotel