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 Monk Wendy Monk Wendy Elizabeth Monk (19 July 1915 – 4 January 2000), wife of theatre critic J. C. Trewin (1908–1990), whom she married on 4 October 1938. They were "an inseparable couple, whose shared interests also bore fruit in literary collaboration, they had two sons": Ion and Mark Antony. Since 2000, an award has been given by the Critics' Circle for the best Shakespearian performance of the Year: "The John And Wendy Trewin Award For Best Shakespearian Performance". Wendy Monk wrote and published a biography of her great-grandfather, John Gill, a printer and bookbinder of Penryn in "Cornwall". Gill was