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Humour, Ageing, Art, Belonging, Birth, Body, Books and Reading, Celebration, Childhood, Christmas, City life, Comment, Conflict, Death, Digital World, Family, Fantasy, Fathers, Fathers' Day, Food, Friendship, Grief, Growing up, Guilt, Language, Home, Identity, Illness, International Women's Day, Imagination, Interview, Loss, Love, Marriage, Memories, Migration, Mothers, Mothering Sunday, Music, Nature, Natural World, Online World, Peace, Place, Poems about Paintings, Poems by Young People, Poems with Film or Animation, Poetry, Poverty, Protest, Rap and Slam, Politics, Race, Racism, Rebellion, Relationships, Revenge, School, Seasons, Sex, Shakespeare's birthday, Sport, States of Mind, St David's Day, The past, Tradition, Valentine's Day, Violence, War, Water, Wealth, Work, World Book Day, Youth, YouTube Selection,
Resources:
Jenny Joseph on The Poetry Archive
Jenny Joseph at Bloodaxe Books
Jenny Joseph on Amazon
Warning: When I Am an Old Woman I Shall Wear Purple
Selected Poems
Nothing Like Love
Extreme of Things
Jenny Joseph
Born in 1932, Jenny Joseph first published ‘Warning’ in her second collection, Rose In The Afternoon (1974) and then in her Selected Poems from Bloodaxe in 1992. Pamela Robertson-Pearce filmed her reading the poem in Ledbury, Herefordshire, in July 2008, during Ledbury Poetry Festival. Jenny Joseph lives in Gloucestershire.
