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Her artful combination of insight and wit made an extraordinary impact in poems that cocked a gentle snook at the pomposity of a literary world hitherto dominated by men.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eThrough four further collections, Cope has continued to delight her readers while finding a whole new generation of enthusiasts when her poem 'The Orange' went viral. Together these poems catalogue the desires and fears that underlie our ordinary existences - love and heartbreak, disappointment and a hard-won capacity to find happiness, even if only in the form of a poem.. In their profound attention to and encapsulation of the everyday, these poems serve to make our own lives the more remarkable and memorable. \u003ci\u003eCollected Poems \u003c\/i\u003ecelebrates a lifetime's achievement by a poet who has been original and distinctive from the very start, and provides the perfect accompaniment to the trials, tribulations and joys of our all too  human lives.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eThis collection also features Nick Garland's original illustrations for \u003ci\u003eThe River Girl\u003c\/i\u003e (1991).\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e'Her poetry stands unsurpassed in its popularity and technical accomplishment - there's no better contemporary writer of forms such as the triolet - and in the wit, acuity and seriousness of purpose with which she shows us what it is to be human.' Rishi Dastidar, \u003ci\u003eGuardian\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e'We can love Wendy Cope's words . . . for the rhymes they reveal but also for the sad truths they speak.' Adam Gopnik, \u003ci\u003eNew Yorker \u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e'One has to go back to Byron to find a poet as consistently witty, wide-ranging and technically outstanding as Cope.' \u003ci\u003eLos Angeles Review of Books\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e'We need not wonder at Wendy Cope's continued, wide appeal. She writes poems that people want to read, and this is how poems survive.'\u003ci\u003e Literary Review\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e'Wit and heart? 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