Poetry Illustrated

My Life Was a Trainwreck. Then I Read This Poem.

A.O. Scott seeks practical wisdom in a villanelle by Wendy Cope.

Good poets know the rules and when to break them, which is something they can teach the rest of us.

https://www.nytimes.com/interactive/2026/05/28/books/poem-wisdom-wendy-cope.html?unlocked_article_code=1.nVA.ss3o.5RBaqrN0QDJW&smid=url-share

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"on a train" by wendy cope. 🌼

(found it in her "collected poems", p. 240.)

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"an afternoon", from wendy cope's "collected poems".

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How gorgeous is this new Wendy Cope Collected Poems edition, complete with floral spredges?? Just arrived from Faber Books.

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"If you ask me ' What's new?', I have nothing to say
Except that the garden is growing.
I had a slight cold but it's better today.
I'm content with the way things are going."

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PRAHAN JÄLKEEN (MARINA TSVETAJEVA)
Wendy Cope(1945-)

https://satruno.blogspot.com/2017/09/prahan-jalkeen-maria-tsvetajevalle.html

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