biography
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| female
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| lived:
| (1945– )
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| biography:
| Poet, writer, and journalist, born in Kent, SW England, UK, and educted at St Hilda's College, Oxford. She went on to become a teacher in London. Her first, best-selling collection of poems, Making Cocoa for Kingsley Amis, was published to great acclaim in 1986. Witty and colloquial, her poems parody the works of poets such as Wordsworth, T S Eliot, Phillip Larkin, and Ted Hughes. She won the Cholmondeley Award for poetry in 1987, and the Michael Braude Award for Light Verse in 1995. If I Don't Know appeared in 2001. Her poems have appeared in many anthologies and have been broadcast on radio. She has also written many books for children. |
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