The wonderful new collection of poems, anecdotes and short verses from the inimitable Pam Ayres.
Pam Ayres, our much-loved comedienne and broadcaster, has
entertained us for almost 40 years since winning Opportunity Knocks
in 1975. Her series on BBC Radio 4 is Ayres on the Air, and she has
also appeared as a guest on Just A Minute, Loose Ends and Saturday
Live. She is one of the UK's top-selling comediennes with her
theatre shows.
Pam's poetry collections include The Works, With These Hands and
Surgically Enhanced, and The Necessary Aptitude is her memoir of
growing up in Berkshire during the post-war years. Pam has appeared
three times for HM Queen Elizabeth, and was awarded the MBE in the
Queen's Birthday Honours of 2004. Pam and her husband have lived in
Gloucestershire for over 25 years, where they have a smallholding
with cattle, sheep, bees, chickens and guinea fowl.
www.pamayres.com
@PamAyres
When I say that Pam Ayres ought to be the Oxford Professor of
Poetry, even the Poet Laureate, I am not being facetious ... Ayres
uses simple verse forms - comic ballads or folk song idioms - to
make poignant observations about tiresome husbands, gossiping
wives, false teeth or battery hens.
I find her work sweet and sour, gentle and sad, and often very
moving in its wistful way
*Daily Mail*
Her wistful, funny and perceptive verse captures both the joy and
unfairness of life
*Sunday Times*
A wonderful, wonderful book
*Paul O’Grady*
Her humour, which verges on the black at times, is contagious and
so original
*Daily Telegraph*
A national treasure. There are clear comparisons between Pam and
Sir John Betjeman
*Daily Express*
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