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Biographical note
Pam Ayres has been a regular on television and radio since winning the talent show Opportunity Knocks in 1975 - on Just a Minute, The Comedy Quiz, Countdown and her own series, Ayres on the Air. She performs her solo stage show throughout Britain and around the world and has a huge fan base in the UK, Australia and New Zealand. Pam is one of Britain's best-loved personalities and was awarded the MBE in 2004. For details of Pam's theatre engagements please see www.pamayres.com.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
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.