Voted Britain's favourite poem in 1996, 'Warning', written in 1961, is known and loved the world over. Its declaration of defiance, so vividly and cleverly expressed, appeals to the rebel in all of us as we secretly yearn to throw off the shackles of propriety and enjoy the gleeful freedom of cocking a snook at the rest of the world. In the poem's respectable middle-aged woman, as she indulges in her fantasy of the gabby old crone with her outrageous clothes and dotty behaviour, Jenny Joseph has created a character whose thoughts have been quoted at conferences and funerals, used to cheer up sick friends, remembered with pleasure by children and adults alike. Found in schoolbooks from Alaska to Singapore, the poem has been stitched, stamped, quilted, set to music, printed on cards, written on cakes and made into films. Now, for the first time, 'Warning' appears as an illustrated book with drawings by Pythia Ashton-Jewell specially designed to suit its unique character.

Warning: When I Am an Old Woman I Shall Wear Purple

Joseph, Jenny

Religion & Spirituality

Souvenir Press

In Jenny Joseph's new book about smell and the garden, there is the unconventional viewpoint, the sharp observation, the sensual awareness to be found in her poetry and fiction, together with the energy of her descriptive writing. With her special sense of humour she sends up those in our society who makes us anxious about failing to live as the trend-setters dictate. This is not an ordinary 'how to garden' book. Jenny Joseph hopes to give cheer to the unsuccessful, and cheer and enjoyment successful and unsuccessful alike will get from this book. She interests us in the least discussed of our senses, smell, whose site is the oldest part of the human brain. Each month is evoked through the smell of its plants; and we learn what needs to be planted when, for our gardens to give us pleasure throughout the year. This is a book full of diversions that will lead you off the strait and narrow garden path to smell the roses, and experience the cornucopia of olfactory pleasures the air is laden with.

Led by the Nose: A Garden of Smells

Crafts, Hobbies & Home

Gardening & Landscape Design

The thinking heart

Literature & Fiction

Poetry

Secker and Warburg

Rose in the afternoon, and other poems (An Aldine paperback original)

Dent

Persephone

Persephone loses her innocence in the Underworld, but finds herself. She is Everywoman coming through darkness, betrayal and disillusion to discover a new life, a new sense of herself. And she is many women in Jenny Joseph's extraordinary novel, which retells the Greek myth of spring and winter, of good and evil.Demeter the earth goddess is every worried mother struggling to understand her daughter. Hades is the reckless man, brutal, possessive, but mellowed by the girl he takes for himself, the woman who goes back to him.In Persephone, Jenny Joseph has created a new kind of novel, a story made up of many stories, our stories, using poetry, narrative, parody and many other kinds of writing. Like the myth itself, Persephone is unforgettable. The book won her the 1986 James Black Memorial Prize for Fiction.

British & Irish

Bloodaxe Books Ltd.

Dufour Editions

, 54 and 64 pages, other ISBN is: 1852242957, both volumes signed by the author on the title page

The Inland Sea

Papier Mache Pr

Twice-voted poem of the year, Warning is an uplifting poem about growing older - now beautifully redesigned with new illustrations.

Warning: When I Am An Old Woman I Shall Wear Purple

IPS - Profile Books

The unusual, remarkable memoir of a treasured British poet: Jenny Joseph, author of Warning: When I am an Old Woman I Shall Wear Purple, presents a year in her garden - twelve months of musings, wisdom and scents

Led By The Nose

Biographies & Memoirs

Community & Culture

Presents poems drawn from the author's first four collections, The Unlooked-for Season (Scorpion Press, 1960), Rose in the Afternoon (J M Dent, 1974), The Thinking Heart (Secker and Warburg, 1978) and Beyond Descartes (Secker and Warburg, 1983).

Selected Poems

Bloodaxe Books

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