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
Wendy Xu the syntax of her poetry. Wendy Xu was awarded the Patricia Goedicke Prize in Poetry in 2011, Ottoline Prize and the Ruth Lilly Fellowship in 2014. She has also appeared in: Wendy Xu Wendy Xu (born 1987) is a Chinese American Poet. Xu was born in Shandong China in 1987 but was raised in the United States in Iowa and New York. She earned her BA at the University of Iowa and finished her graduate studies at the University of Massachusetts Amherst. Xu has published several collections including "You Are Not Dead" (2013), "Phrasis" (2017), "The Hero Poems" (2011), and