'A poem about a dream': Wendy Cope on Making Cocoa for Kingsley Amis

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'A poem about a dream': Wendy Cope on Making Cocoa for Kingsley Amis

The poet on her early obsession with poetry, inventing her own struggling male poet and only realising the core theme behind her collection after it was publishedKingsley Amis described writing poems as “a limited risk enterprise”. He thought, perhaps unfairly, that this was why Philip Larkin, after producing a couple of novels early in his career, stuck to poetry thereafter. You can waste a day or two producing a hopeless poem. A hopeless novel…