Nothing Like Love by Jenny Joseph
"Nothing Like Love" is a collection of love poems by one of Britain's most popular and highly acclaimed poets. Jenny Joseph is known mainly as the author of "Warning", her internationally renowned dramatic monologue in which a middle-aged character talks of her fantasies of old age. But when Jenny Joseph was first published in the 1950s she was most admired for the wit of her precision with words in service to a memorable lyric style. Over more than 60 years in which she has been exploring a wide range of forms - new ways of telling stories in prose and verse, introducing cadences of common speech into the lyrical movement of her verse, creating characters who tell their own stories - she has always written what she things of as 'songs'. For this new book she has brought back some of the best-loved early love poems to make an entirely fresh combination with previously uncollected poems, and some very new poems published here for the first time. This new collection shows that Jenny Joseph's ability to convey the experiences of a 'thinking heart' is in no way diminished.
'She can delineate surfaces like a sculptor - exact, precise, sharply definite - yet with a startling undertow, a pull of unease which lies just beneath the texture, as an artery beneath the skin' - Joan Forman, Eastern Daily Press 'Rational, realist, philosophical, Jenny Joseph represents a stoical refusal to see life other than it is - a less sentimental poetry it would be hard to imagine' - British Book News
Jenny Joseph was born in Birmingham in 1932 and studied English Literature at St Hilda's College, Oxford. She was first published and broadcast by John Lehmann in the 1950s. Scorpion Press published her first book of poems, The Unlooked-for Season, in 1960, the decade in which she married, had three children and produced six children's books. Since then thirteen more books in prose and verse, for children and adults, have been published. She is a Fellow of the Royal Society of Literature.
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| ISBN 13 | 9781904634843 |
| ISBN 10 | 1904634842 |
| Title | Nothing Like Love |
| Author | Jenny Joseph |
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| Binding Type | Paperback |
| Publisher | Enitharmon Press |
| Year published | 2009-10-06 |
| Number of pages | 48 |
| Cover note | Book picture is for illustrative purposes only, actual binding, cover or edition may vary. |
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