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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