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Please click on the link below to view Jenny Joseph reading her poem 'Warning', Britain's most popular post-war poem, according to a poll conducted by the BBC in 1996.   Pamela Robertson-Pearce filmed her reading the poem in Ledbury, Herefordshire, in July 2008 during Ledbury Poetry Festival.


http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8cACbzanitg&feature=youtu.be


Jenny Joseph

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Jenny Joseph (born 7 May 1932) is one of the UK's foremost living poets. 

She was born in Birmingham, and studied English literature at St Hilda's College, Oxford, before becoming a journalist. She has worked for the Bedfordshire Times, the Oxford Mail and Drum Publications (Johannesburg, South Africa).

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.
 

In 1995, she was awarded a travelling scholarship by the Society of Authors. She is a Fellow of the Royal Society of Literature.

Jenny Joseph lives in Gloucestershire.

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