2x In person tickets to Wendy Cope | Collected Poems Sun 23 Nov 2025 | 4:00pm, Cambridge Union.

Wendy Cope is that rarest of writers: a poet who is both critically acclaimed and a true bestseller. Since the publication of her first collection Making Cocoa for Kingsley Amis in 1986, she has won countless admirers with her wit, clarity and emotional honesty. A whole new generation of readers discovered her when her much-loved poem The Orange went viral.

Now, for the first time, all her work is gathered in one definitive volume, Collected Poems. Across these pages, Cope explores our deepest longings and anxieties – love and disappointment, humour and heartache, as well as a hard-won belief in the possibility of happiness.

Join us to celebrate the remarkable career of one of Britain’s most beloved poets.

In conversation with Alex Clark