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Jenny Joseph is one of Britain’s leading poets, and the author of numerous poetry collections, books for children and volumes of prose. She was born in Birmingham and studied English at St. Hilda’s College, Oxford, and subsequently worked as a newspaper reporter, a pub landlady and a freelance lecturer.
Her first collection of poetry, entitled The Unlooked-for Season (1960), was awarded a Gregory Award, and she won a Cholmondeley Award for her second, Rose in the Afternoon (1974). Subsequent works have included The Thinking Heart (1978) and Beyond Descartes (1983), and much of the content of her early works was reprinted in Selected Poems (1992). In 1986 she won the James Tait Black Memorial Prize for fiction for Persephone, a work of prose and verse. Her most recent works are Ghosts and Other Company (1995), the prose collection Extended Similes (1997), All the Things I See (2000), and Extreme of Things (2006). She has also written a garden book for the literary-minded, entitled Led by the Nose (2002), a wonderfully evocative book which describes a year in her garden through the different smells of each month's plants. Her most famous poem is ‘Warning’, which has twice been voted Britain’s favourite poem of the Twentieth Century. She is currently working on a history of ‘Warning’, featuring all of the translations, international anthologies, and odd places in which it has appeared.
Jenny Joseph is a Fellow of the Royal Society of Literature., and she continues to live and write in a village in Gloucestershire.
Recent books:
Extreme of Things (Bloodaxe: 2006)
Led by the Nose (Souvenir: 2002)
All the Things I See (Macmillan Children’s Books: 2000)
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