Jenny Joseph  (b. 1932) LINKS Jenny Joseph, Poetry http://www.geocities.com/Paris/LeftBank/6865/jjoseph.html Nets To Catch the Wind’s Web page on Jenny Joseph reprints her popular poem about the desire to stay young, “Warning.” British Poet brings voice to her latest work at a college reading http://www.yale.edu/ydn/paper/2.1.96/2.1.96storyno.DD.html This article, “Jenny Joseph Reads Aloud over Tea in Berkeley,” by Stacey Sanders reveals Joseph’s casual grace. BIOGRAPHY Born in Birmingham, England, Joseph graduated from Oxford University with honors (1953). She worked for a number of provincial English newspapers before moving to South Africa in 1957. There she worked for a publisher and taught at the Central Indian High School in Johannesburg. She returned to England and, with her husband, managed a pub in London between 1969 and 1972. She began teaching English as a second language at West London College in 1972 and served for several years as an adult-education instructor. Between 1966 and 1968, she co-authored several children’s books. Her more recent volumes of verse include Ghosts and Other Company (1997) and Extended Similes (1997). Among her several awards are a Society of Authors traveling scholarship (1995) and the Forward Poetry Prize (1995). One critic noted that when compared to her earliest work, her later work shows “more warmth, more empathy, . . . she is concerned with human characters rather than archetypes.” The same critic praises Joseph’s ability to create dramatic monologues based on vernacular speech.