Pam Ayres - The Works: The Classic Collection

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She is a patron of the British Hen Welfare Trust, Cheltenham Animal Shelter and Oak and Furrows Wildlife Rescue Centre. And then I started to go the local folk club, which is where I used to listen to all this wonderful folk music I'm so keen on.

First published in 1997, this book includes many of Pam’s most popular earlier poems including Yes I’ll Marry You My Dear, Will I Have To Be Sexy at Sixty, The Wonderbra, and How Can That Be. The 103 third parties who use cookies on this service do so for their purposes of displaying and measuring personalized ads, generating audience insights, and developing and improving products.

Join our community to get personalised book suggestions, extracts straight to your inbox, 10% off RRPs, and to change children’s lives. Pam introduces each recording and then, as a bonus, reads a collection of new and previously unrecorded poems from her two most recent books, You Made Me Late Again and Up In The Attic. Each episode features a special guest and ends with Pam reciting a short, uplifting verse summing up her adventures.

Pam Ayres is one of our most widely-adored poets throughout the world and is nothing less than a national treasure. With brand new introductions, poems, and illustrations, this is the definitive collection of Pam Ayres' poetry dedicated to her love of animals.from 11m40s on): Bob Dylan, I discovered him when I was 17 years old and for the first time in my life I felt it was music and songwriting that was relevant to me. On radio Pam appears regularly on BBC Radio 4’s Just A Minute and her own series, Ayres on the Air for Radio 4. She has appeared at many Literary and Arts Festivals throughout the UK including Hay, Cheltenham, Edinburgh Fringe, and overseas in Hong Kong and Dubai. Her humorous observations of daily life touch a chord with anybody who's ever been bewildered by the exercise craze or has yearned after the vanished Spotted Dick.

Many of her poems are in school textbooks around the world including the UK, USA, China, Australia, New Zealand, Holland, South Africa, Ireland and Singapore.Yet they lived by the green in the village of Stanford in the Vale, where everything you needed was within walking distance and the sound of motorcars was rarely heard. Her reading of her poem The Battery Hen [8] was re-broadcast as Pick of the Week on the Today programme on BBC Radio 4, leading to a six-month contract with Radio Oxford. This copy is in good to very good condition (sme foxing to the covers), and is signed by the author on the contents page.

While at Smiths, Ayres began performing at a local folk club, [7] and this led eventually to an invitation to read on BBC Radio Oxford in 1974. Sling Another Chair Leg on the Fire, Mother' and, of course, 'Oh, I Wish I'd Looked After Me Teeth'.Drawing on regional traditions and heritage, celebrate the timeless appeal of activities from cricket matches to beachcombing classic cars and Sunday drives. Her work is popular with fans of all ages, and her wry observations on the peculiarities of modern life will raise a smile from even the most hardened cynic. Just published this year is a new edition of Pam’s book, With These Hands, re-issued by Ebury Press/Penguin Books.