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More recently Ayres has become a regular contributor to BBC Radio 4, appearing in programmes such as Just a Minute, Say the Word, That Reminds Me, and six series of her own show, Ayres on the Air, a radio show of her poetry and sketches. [18] In 2007, Ayres acted in a radio sitcom, Potting On for Radio 4, co-starring Geoffrey Whitehead. [19]
Deeley was left emotional after Shephard revealed that renowned British poet Pam Ayres had composed a personalised poem to celebrate the occasion. She explained that she had been woken up at 5 ...
For nine years, my husband was being treated for Stage 4 throat cancer and the effects of that treatment. The radiation burned his throat, making it nearly impossible to swallow. The chemo gave ...
100 Poems by Seamus Heaney: The Last Hedgehog by Pam Ayres: England: Poems from a School edited by Kate Clanchy: Off the Shelf edited by Carol Ann Duffy: She Must Be Mad by Charly Cox: The Last Hedgehog by Pam Ayres: The Poetry Pharmacy by William Sieghart: Young Adult A Skinful of Shadows by Frances Hardinge: La Belle Sauvage: The Book of Dust ...
Pam Ayres (born 1947), English humorous poet Robert Aytoun (1570–1638), Scottish poet Maryam Jafari Azarmani (born 1977), Iranian poet, Persian poet, essayist, critic and translator
"There is a part of me that wants to warn you about it... and a part of me that wants to trust you with it."
Her living room is cluttered with cat hairs and photographs of distant relatives. Her poems consist entirely of sub-Pam Ayres cat poems, one of which, entitled Naughty Paws, managed to rhyme "Whiskas" with "discus". When her poems are eventually published it gives Adrian an excuse to expel her from the group as it is 'for amateurs only'.
When a poem is flooded with too much emotion, it becomes sentimental, even cheesy; but when a poem risks nothing, it leaves a reader cold. The best love poems enact the hyperaware state of being ...