Nothing Like Love

"Nothing Like Love" is a collection of love poems by one of Britain's most popular and highly acclaimed poets. Jenny Joseph is known mainly as the author of "Warning", her internationally renowned dramatic monologue in which a middle-aged character talks of her fantasies of old age. But when Jenny Joseph was first published in the 1950s she was most admired for the wit of her precision with words in service to a memorable lyric style. Over more than 60 years in which she has been exploring a wide range of forms - new ways of telling stories in prose and verse, introducing cadences of common speech into the lyrical movement of her verse, creating characters who tell their own stories - she has always written what she things of as 'songs'. For this new book she has brought back some of the best-loved early love poems to make an entirely fresh combination with previously uncollected poems, and some very new poems published here for the first time. This new collection shows that Jenny Joseph's ability to convey the experiences of a 'thinking heart' is in no way diminished.

ISBN 1904634842   Pages 48 ISBN13 9781904634843 (What's this?)   Volumes 1 Publisher Enitharmon Press   Weight (grammes) 91 Imprint Enitharmon Press   Published in London Format Paperback   Height (mm) 216 Publication date 01 Sep 2009   Width (mm) 138 DEWEY 821.914   Spine width (mm) 6 DEWEY edition DC22   Academic level General

		Fancy free		7
		Lady Love		8
		The unlooked-for season		9
		Cherry		10
		The sun has burst the sky		11
		A child expecting visitors		12
		Baby's song		13
		On this blue day		14
		Song for Narcissus		15
		Honey and gold		16
		Euridyce		17
		I have doubled your rose		18
		At the Opera		19
		Ballad of Rodborough Common		20
		The Feast		24
		Still reading fairy stories		26
		Abstract study - circles		27
		X marks the spot		28
		Getting back home		29
		Bride to groom		30
		The overbold		31
		Here lies Treasure: here be Monsters		32
		Great Sun		33
		Certain weathers		34
		Married people going to work		35
		Dawn Walkers		36
		Redistribution		37
		'Go back to Square One'		38
		Reported Missing		39
		The torrent		41
		Lullaby		44
		In honour of love		46
		Nothing like love		48

'She can delineate surfaces like a sculptor - exact, precise, sharply definite - yet with a startling undertow, a pull of unease which lies just beneath the texture, as an artery beneath the skin' - Joan Forman, Eastern Daily Press 'Rational, realist, philosophical, Jenny Joseph represents a stoical refusal to see life other than it is - a less sentimental poetry it would be hard to imagine' - British Book News

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