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 The River Girl - Wendy Cope
Newest Review: ... endings? Wouldn't the littluns have gone away from the puppet show in floods of tears? Anyway, the plot. John Didde ... more  ... ("a little like John Donne") is a wannabe poet, sitting by the banks of the Thames (upper part thereof - not even Cope can be romantic about the eastern end of it), where he is miserably failing to write anything worthwhile. Much like the usual Faber and Faber poet then. His heart just isn't in it. But hey, his heart gets involved when out of the waters emerges the ravishing Isis, named after the way people at Oxford Unive ...more |
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The River Girl - Wendy Cope: How to marry a mermaid (1023 words)
by theediscerning - written on 19/10/02 (Very useful, 98 readings)
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I still think dooyoo should pay me twice for this. It's in two categories, y'see (at least in my mind), children's book and poetry. Wendy Cope burst onto the poetic scene in the 1980s with Making Cocoa for Kingsley Amis, which although being from Faber and Faber, was a good poetry collection - with wit, humour and style, and not all this pompous verbal diarrhoea they keep flogging to us. I was introduced to this at uni in a basic get-them-to-actually-look-at-poetry way, having been put off much modern verse beforehand with Eliot and DH Lawrence, like many. And so many years ago I was keen to see The River Girl in the library. It turns out ...
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