Warning by Jenny Joseph

Warning by Jenny Joseph

Twice-voted poem of the year, Warning is an uplifting poem about growing older.

A poem that was to inspire two generations of women to contemplate behaving badly* Mail on Sunday *
The most popular poem in Britain. * Guardian *
Continues to inspire with its humour... speaks to the devil in us all... Utterly charming and uplifting. * Good Book Guide *

Jenny Joseph has been writing poetry since childhood and was first published in the 1950s by John Lehmann. Her first published collection, The Unlooked-for Season, won her a Cholmondeley Award and her prose and verse narrative, Persephone, the James Tait Black Memorial Prize. In 1995 she was awarded a Society of Authors Travelling Scholarship. In 2006 her poem 'Warning' was voted Britain's favourite modern poem. She had three children and lived in Gloucestershire. Jenny Joseph died in 2018, aged 85. Pythia Ashton-Jewell has been a printer and opera-singer and is reading for a degree in Music while pursuing her career as writer and illustrator, mainly of children's books. She lives in London.

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ISBN 13	9780285634114
ISBN 10	0285634119
Title	Warning
Author	Jenny Joseph
Condition	Unavailable
Binding Type	Hardback
Publisher	Profile Books Ltd
Year published	1997-11-06
Number of pages	32
Cover note	Book picture is for illustrative purposes only, actual binding, cover or edition may vary.