Nothing Like Love [Paperback]

Jenny Joseph (Author)

Book Description

ISBN-10: 1904634842 | ISBN-13: 978-1904634843 | Publication Date: June 24, 2010

Nothing Like Love is a collection of love poems from the past and the present by one of Britain's most popular and highly acclaimed poets. Jenny Joseph was born in Birmingham in 1932 and studied English Literature at St. Hilda's College, Oxford. Her poem ""Warning"" was identified as the UK's `most popular post-war poem' in a 1996 poll by the BBC. She is a Fellow of the Royal Society of Literature. ""Jenny Joseph writes poems full of mist and reason, poems strange in what they say but plain in the way they say it, poems rooted in an English tradition of passionate but quiet exactness.careful craftsmanship, an honest exploration of the human heart, and statement after statement that nags at the memory."" -The Times (UK). ""An intriguing and insightful read for lovers of poetry."" -The Midwest Book Review

Editorial Reviews

Review

'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 --Forman, Eastern Daily Press

An intriguing and insightful read for lovers of poetry. --The Midwest Book Review

About the Author

Jenny Joseph was born in Birmingham in 1932 and studied English Literature at St Hilda's College, Oxford. She was first published and broadcast by John Lehmann in the 1950s. Scorpion Press published her first book of poems, The Unlooked-for Season, in 1960, the decade in which she married, had three children and produced six children's books. Since then thirteen more books in prose and verse, for children and adults, have been published. She is a Fellow of the Royal Society of Literature.

Product Details

• Paperback: 48 pages
• Publisher: Enitharmon Pr (June 24, 2010)
• Language: English
• ISBN-10: 1904634842
• ISBN-13: 978-1904634843
• Product Dimensions: 8.3 x 5.3 x 0.3 inches
• Shipping Weight: 1.4 ounces (View shipping rates and policies)
• Average Customer Review: 5.0 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (1 customer review)
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #3,179,570 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)

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5.0 out of 5 stars Love is the driving force behind so much in life, May 14, 2010

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This review is from: Nothing Like Love (Paperback)

Love is the driving force behind so much in life. "Nothing Like Love" is an anthology of poetry from Jenny Joseph, an experienced poet with decades upon decades of experience. Showing her experience in contrast to her early work, "Nothing Like Love' will prove an intriguing and insightful read for lovers of poetry. "Cherry": Suddenly the cherry has opened./I could believe it was love/Like the babe opening its eye.//Twig thickening on the air/Has become this burst of blossom./It waves its appeal in the spring breezes;/O cherry, O open heart.