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Poems

There are several poems on various websites that claim to be “a new poem by Pam Ayres”. In some cases they are parodies

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Oh, I Wish I’d Looked After Me Teeth

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Oh, I wish I’d looked after me teeth, And spotted the dangers beneath All the toffees I chewed, And the sweet sticky food. Oh, I wish I’d looked

Yes I’ll Marry You My Dear

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Yes, I’ll marry you, my dear. And here’s the reason why. So I can push you out of bed When the baby starts to cry. And if we

Woodland Burial

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Don’t lay me in some gloomy churchyard shaded by a wall Where the dust of ancient bones has spread a dryness over all, Lay me in

They Should Have Asked My Husband

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You know this world is complicated, imperfect and oppressed And it’s not hard to feel timid, apprehensive and depressed. It seems that all around us tides

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The Necessary Aptitude: A Memoir

‘NEXT, I APPLIED TO WORK IN THE ACCOUNTS DEPARTMENT, a sealed room where women operated clattering machines like enormous typewriters. After I had catastrophically

The Works: The Classic Collection

The Works contains 120 of Pam Ayres’ best-known poems from the seventies and eighties, including ‘The Battery Hen’, ‘Please Will You Take Your Children