introspection, in which manic episodes, escape attempts and the baffling helplessness of incarceration are examined with agonised honesty. The risk with a collection such as this [by Sarah Wardle] is that the subject matter will smother the verse.
from Sarah Crown: The Guardian: Poetry borne out of stress
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The pithiness, click of rhyme and smoothly insistent rhythm show why [Wendy] Cope is, as the cover has it, "one of Britain's best-loved poets". This is likeable verse: witty, memorable, immediately relevant.
For all that, it's difficult to see why, exactly, Faber has chosen this moment to produce Cope's Selected.
from Sarah Crown: The Guardian: Two Cures for Love: Selected Poems
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