Warning - When I am an Old Woman I Shall Wear Purple

Informationen zum Autor 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. Klappentext Voted as Britain's best-loved poem by viewers of BBC TV's "Bookworm", and now illustrated by Pythia Ashton-Jewell. Zusammenfassung Twice-voted poem of the year, Warning is an uplifting poem about growing older.

Product details

• Authors: Jenny Joseph
• Assisted by: Pythia Ashton-Jewell (Illustration), Pythia Ashton- Jewell (Illustration)
• Publisher: Souvenir Press Ltd
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 06.11.1997
• EAN: 9780285634114
• ISBN: 978-0-285-63411-4
• No. of pages: 32
• Dimensions: 116 mm x 158 mm x 10 mm
• Subjects: Fiction > Poetry, drama; POETRY / Subjects & Themes / Family, Humour, Gift books