| Jenny Joseph (b. 1932) is originally from Birmingham. Her poems were first published when she was at Oxford University at the beginning of the 1950s and by John Lehmann in magazines and on the radio. Her first book, The Unlooked-for Season, was published in 1960 and won her a Gregory Award whilst her second, Rose in the Afternoon, was recognised by a Cholmondeley Award. In 1992 the bulk of her first four books of poems was reprinted in Selected Poems by Bloodaxe Books. The poems she has chosen for this recording are taken from that volume, so only work written between 1950 and 1982 is represented here, and inevitably the shorter poems from her wide-ranging output.
1 Introduction 0.21
2 The unlooked-for season 1.03
3 The lost continent 1.50
4 Summer Amnesty 1.21
5 Man in a bar 2.44
6 Reported missing 2.37
7 Women at Streatham Hill 2.02
8 Homo Sapiens 2.06
9 Language teaching: naming 2.27
10 Warning 1.25
11 An exile in Devon 1.51
12 Catch 0.45
13 The sun has burst the sky 0.48
14 Zenith 1.19
15 Fables 3.13
Higgledy-piggledy
Jack and the beanstalk
Cutting off one’s ears for someone else is wrong
Hare and tortoise
16 Dawn walkers 1.56
17 Getting up in winter 0.28
18 A meteorology 1.14
19 Rose in the afternoon 2.21
20 Tides 0.52
21 Married people going to work 1.08
22 Love and Justice 1.58
23 Meeting up 2.23
24 The Goddess of Nature's diatribe to her people 4.46
25 Against the personality cult 0.44
26 From Life and Turgid times of A. Citizen:Tripping down 1.16
27 Lure 1.20
28 Back to base 2.13
29 Knock knock 2.07
30 Derivations 2.47
Translation
Cherry
Story
Lady
X marks the spot. A postcard from home
31 Another old tale 2.44
32 Untitled 3.39
33 In memory of God 2.27
34 The inland sea 3.44
Total length of the recording 66.00
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