Jenny Joseph reads her poem 'Warning'
Jenny Joseph reads her poem 'Warning', Britain's most popular post-war poem, according to poll conducted by the BBC in 1996. Born in 1932, Jenny Joseph first published 'Warning' in 1961 in The Listener -- when she was 29 -- and later included it in her second collection, ROSE IN THE AFTERNOON (1974) and then in her SELECTED POEMS from Bloodaxe in 1992. Pamela Robertson-Pearce filmed her reading the poem in Ledbury, Herefordshire, in July 2008, during Ledbury Poetry Festival. Jenny Joseph lived in London for many years, later retiring to Gloucestershire. She died in 2018. If you want to read 'Warning', order your copy of Jenny Joseph's SELECTED POEMS: http://www.bloodaxebooks.com/titlepage.asp?isbn=1852240954
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