Wendy Cope Arts and Reviews editor for the Inner London Education Authority magazine, "Contact". Five years later she became a freelance writer and was a television critic for "The Spectator" magazine until 1990. Five collections of her adult poetry have been published, "Making Cocoa for Kingsley Amis" in 1986, "Serious Concerns" in 1992, "If I Don't Know" in 2001, "Family Values" in 2011, and "Anecdotal Evidence" in 2018. She has also edited several anthologies of comic verse and was a judge of the 2007 Man Booker Prize. In 1998, she was voted the listeners' choice in a BBC Radio 4 poll to
Edward Drinker Cope saurian." While Lakes sent Marsh some 1,500 pounds of bone, he also sent Cope some of the specimens. Marsh published his finds first, and having been paid $100 for the finds Lakes wrote to Cope that the samples should be forwarded to Marsh. Cope was offended by the slight. Meanwhile, Cope received bones from school superintendent O.W. Lucas in March 1877 from Canon City; the remains were of a dinosaur even bigger than Lakes' that Marsh had described. Word that Lakes had notified Cope of his finds galvanized Marsh into action. When Marsh heard from Union Pacific Railroad workers W.E.