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Jenny-Joseph

Jenny Joseph. Photo by Norman McBeath. Courtesy StAnza.

Jenny Joseph (born 7 May 1932) is an English poet, best known for her poem, "Warning".

Life[]

Joseph was born in Birmingham.[1]

She studied English literature on a scholarship at St Hilda's College, Oxford (1950).[1] Her poems were originally published when she was at university in the early 1950s.[2]

She became a journalist and worked for the Bedfordshire Times, the Oxford Mail and Drum Publications of Johannesburg, South Africa.

When I am an old woman I shall wear purple
With a red hat which doesn't go, and doesn't suit me.
And I shall spend my pension on brandy and summer gloves
And satin sandals, and say we've no money for butter.
I shall sit down on the pavement when I'm tired
And gobble up samples in shops and press alarm bells
And run my stick along the public railings
And make up for the sobriety of my youth.

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From "Warning" (1961)

Writing[]

Joseph's best known poem, "Warning", was written in 1961 and is included in her 1974 collection Rose In the Afternoon and anthologized Oxford Book of Twentieth Century English Verse. "Warning" was identified as the UK's "most popular post-war poem" in a 1996 poll by the BBC. The 2nd line was the inspiration for the Red Hat Society.[3]

Recognition[]

Joseph's debut collection of poems, The Unlooked-for Season, won an Eric Gregory Award in 1960

She won a Cholmondeley Award for her 2nd collection, Rose in the Afternoon in 1974.

Awards[]

Except where noted, award information courtesy The Poetry Archive[1]

Publications[]

Poetry[]

  • Unlooked-for Season. Northwood, Middlesex, UK: Scorpion Press, 1960.
  • Rose in the Afternoon, and other poems. London: J.M. Dent, 1974.
  • The Thinking Heart. London: Secker & Warburg, 1978.
  • Beyond Descartes. London: Secker & Warburg, 1983.
  • Beached Boats (prose poems) (photographs by Robert Mitchell). London: Enitharmon, 1991.
  • The Inland Sea: A selection from the poetry of Jenny Joseph. Watsonville, CA: Paper Mache Press, 1989.
  • Selected Poems. Newcastle upon Tyne, UK: Bloodaxe, 1992.
  • Ghosts and Other Company. Newcastle upon Tyne, UK: Bloodaxe, 1995.
  • Led by the Nose: A garden of smells. London: Souvenir, 2002.
  • Extreme of Things. Tarset, Northumberland, UK: Bloodaxe, 2006.
  • Nothing Like Love. London: Enitharmon, 2009.

Novels[]

  • Persephone. Newcastle upon Tyne, UK: Bloodaxe, 1986.

Short fiction[]

  • Extended Similes. Newcastle upon Tyne, UK: Bloodaxe, 1997.

Juvenile[]

  • Tim and Terry (illustrated by Desmond Knight). London: Constable, 1967.
  • Judy and Jasmine (illustrated by Desmond Knight). London: Constable, 1967.
  • The Thirteen Days of Christmas (illustrated by Joseph A. Smith). New York: Greenwillow Books, 1987.
  • Warning: When I am an old woman I shall wear purple. London: Souvenir, 1997.
  • All the Things I See. London: Macmillan, 2001.


Except where noted, bibliographical information courtesy WorldCat.[5]

Jenny_Joseph_reads_her_poem_'Warning'

Jenny Joseph reads her poem 'Warning'

Audio / video[]

  • Jenny Joseph: Reading from her poems. London: The Poetry Archive, 2012.[1]

See also[]

References[]

Notes[]

  1. ↑ 1.0 1.1 1.2 1.3 Jenny Joseph (b. 1932), The Poetry Archive. Web, Feb. 1, 2014.
  2. ↑ Couzyn, Jeni. Contemporary Women Poets. Bloodaxe. 1985 p166
  3. ↑ Redhatsociety.com
  4. ↑ "Royal Society of Literature All Fellows". Royal Society of Literature. http://www.rslit.org/content/fellows. Retrieved 9 August 2010. 
  5. ↑ Search results = au:Jenny Joseph, WorldCat, OCLC Online Computer Library Center Inc. Web, Feb. 1, 2014.

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