Known by many as, When I Am An Old Woman I Shall Wear Purple, this poem with its declaration of defiance against convention was voted Britain's best-loved poem by viewers of BBC TV's Bookworm. Now in a uniform gift edition, beautifully illustrated, it is a book for all ages, especially for anyone in the ever increasing 'grey power' range.
Practical and poetic, this is a beautifully written account of a year in Jenny Joseph's Gloucestershire garden through the different smells of each month's plants. From the author of 'Warning: When I am an Old Woman..' which continues to be a bestseller.
Presents poems drawn from the author's first four collections, The Unlooked-for Season (Scorpion Press, 1960), Rose in the Afternoon (J M Dent, 1974), The Thinking Heart (Secker and Warburg, 1978) and Beyond Descartes (Secker and Warburg, 1983).