Jenny Joseph

Jenny Joseph (7 May 1932 – 8 January 2018) was an English poet. Her poem Warning was identified as the UK's "most popular post-war poem" in a 1996 poll by the BBC.

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 * The sun has burst the sky Because I love you And the river its banks.
 * Poem The sun has burst the sky


 * When I am an old woman I shall wear purple With a red hat which doesn't go, and doesn't suit me. And I shall spend my pension on brandy and summer gloves And satin sandals, and say we've no money for butter.
 * Poem Warning


 * I was raised to feel that doing nothing was a sin. I had to learn to do nothing.
 * The Observer, 19 April, 1998, p. 23