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Pam Ayres - The Works: The Classic Collection

Pam Ayres author

Format:Paperback

Publisher:Ebury Publishing

Published:18th Feb '10

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A classic collection of poetry by Pam Ayres

Contains 120 of Pam Ayres' poems, including "The Battery Hen", "Please Will You Take Your Children Home Before I Do Them In?", "Sling Another Chair Leg on the Fire, Mother" and "Oh, I Wish I'd Looked After Me Teeth". This title includes a general introduction by Pam, as well as individual introductions to these classic poems.

The Works contains 120 of Pam Ayres' best-known poems, including 'The Battery Hen', 'Please Will You Take Your Children Home Before I Do Them In?', 'Sling Another Chair Leg on the Fire, Mother' and, of course, 'Oh, I Wish I'd Looked After Me Teeth'.

This edition includes a general introduction by Pam, as well as individual introductions to these classic poems of the seventies and eighties, many of which are now illustrated with specially commissioned line drawings by Susan Hellard. The Works is certain to delight Pam's fans of all ages.

Pam Ayres is a proper poet, whose wistful, funny, and perceptive verse captures both the joy and unfairness of life * Sunday Times *
One of the fastest selling tickets at the Fringe, Pam Ayres' appeal seems undiminished * Edinburgh Herald *
Pam Ayres is a poet for the people. Her verse portrays a wicked sense of humour, and deals with subjects not normally thought to be worthy of poetry * Melbourne Herald Sun *
Pam Ayres, the bestselling poet, writes as rhapsodically about the Wonderbra as Wordsworth did about daffodils * Guardian *
There are clear comparisons between Pam and Sir John Betjeman * Daily Express *

ISBN: 9781846077937

Dimensions: 198mm x 127mm x 15mm

Weight: 179g

256 pages