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
Jack Cope Jack Cope Robert Knox ″Jack″ Cope (3 June 1913 – 1 May 1991) was a South African novelist, short story writer, poet and editor. Jack Cope was born in Natal, South Africa and home-schooled by tutors. From the age of 12, he boarded at Durban High School in Durban, afterwards becoming a journalist on Natal Mercury and then a political correspondent in London for South African newspapers. At the outbreak of the Second World War, in a state of some disillusionment, he returned to South Africa. He moved to Cape Town, where he worked for the Marxist "Guardian" newspaper from