Jenny Joseph (1932-2018) from hare and the tortoise bbc Watch Video
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Description: Jenny Joseph’s poems explore the duality of existence, a track that runs through all her work, whether for children or adults, in poetry or prose. She viewed them as attempts to present ‘how things work’ at the core, at the edge. Pamela Robertson-Pearce filmed her reading a set of poems she had scripted for inclusion in the Bloodaxe Books DVD-anthology In Person: World Poets before her reading at Ledbury Poetry Festival in July 2008: two extracts from ‘Fables’ (from Rose in the Afterno