Warning: When I am an Old Woman I Shall Wear Purple (Poetry)

Warning: When I am an Old Woman I Shall Wear Purple (Poetry)
Jenny Joseph, Pythia Ashton- Jewell
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Hardback
h150 x 111mm - 32pg
7 Oct 2021 UK
International import eta 7-19 days
9781788168182
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Voted Britain's best-loved poem by viewers of BBC TV's "Bookworm," this perennial favorite with its declaration of defiance against convention appeals to all those with a secret desire to throw off the strictures of propriety and set out deliberately to shock and be outrageous. It sums up this wish perfectly with its pronouncement: "When I am an old woman I shall wear purple/With a red hat that doesn't go, and doesn't suit me/I shall sit down on the pavement when I'm tired/And gobble up samples in shops and press alarm bells." Reprinted here as a gift book with line drawings by Pythia Ashton-Jewell, this edition of the classic is ideal both for those who know and love the poem and for those who have yet to relish its gleeful anticipation.
Jenny Joseph won the James Tait Black Memorial Prize for her narrative in prose and verse, "Persephone."
Status: Active
ISBN-13: 9781788168182
Published: 7 Oct 2021
Published In: United Kingdom
Imprint: Souvenir Press
Publisher: Profile Books
Format: Hardback
Height: 150mm
Width: 111mm
Pages: 32

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