News at Eleven: "When I hear people go on about family values,

I think, some people have awful families," she says. "And some people don't have families at all. I was single for a long time and felt very much alone in the world, and talk of family values upset me very much at that phase in my life, because I used to think: what about people like me?" In conversation, [Wendy] Cope is as clear and frank as her poems, which have made her one of our best loved and most-accessible poets.

from The Scotsman: Interview: Wendy Cope, author

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