Sunday, 15 May 2011

Wendy Cope (again).

In a previous blog I told how I stumbled across the poetry of Wendy Cope. I think her work is primarily for women, but her observations of the mundane and her wonderful humour have tempted me to read more. Take this stanza from her poem entitled Rondeau Redouble:

There are so many kinds of awful men —
One can’t avoid them all. She often said
She’d never make the same mistake again:
She always made a new mistake instead.


Even better hear Wendy Cope and Amanda Holden on You Tube reading 'Bloody Men': 
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=huZ9HBjO-24

2 comments:

  1. Would such a poem be acceptable today if written about women by a man?

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  2. Good point. I'm not sure it would be.

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