Twice-voted poem of the year, Warning is an uplifting poem about growing older.
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 has three grown-up children
and lives in Gloucestershire.
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.
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*
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