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  • Published: 1 April 2010
  • ISBN: 9781846077937
  • Imprint: BBC Books
  • Format: Paperback
  • Pages: 256
  • RRP: $27.99
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Pam Ayres - The Works: The Classic Collection



A classic collection of poetry by Pam Ayres

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.

  • Published: 1 April 2010
  • ISBN: 9781846077937
  • Imprint: BBC Books
  • Format: Paperback
  • Pages: 256
  • RRP: $27.99
Categories:

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Praise for Pam Ayres - The Works: The Classic Collection

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

The genius Pam Ayres

Euan Ferguson, Observer

One of Britain's greatest poets

Will Hodgkinson, Guardian