In the Footsteps of Dorothy Parker: Wendy Cope

 

"At Christmas little children sing and merry bells jingle,

The cold winter air makes our hands and faces tingle

And happy families go to church and cheerily they mingle

And the whole business is unbelievably dreadful, if you're single."

            - Wendy Cope

Wendy Cope (b.1945) is a British poet, author of five published volumes, and the recipient of  an OBE.

Image: Joel Meyerowitz - untitled,, from the Pack Series, 1977, kodachrome, Pompidou Center, Paris.