Jenny Joseph

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Jenny Joseph (17 May 1932-January 2018) was an English poet.

Early life and education

Jennifer Joseph was born in South Hill, Carpenter Road, Edgbaston, Birmingham, Birmingham, England, on May 7th, 1932, with Louis Joseph, an antiques dealer, and Jane Cotton. The family was non-observant Jews. Joseph was evacuated to Devon early during the Second World War due to her father's work. She attributed this experience to her fascination with the changing light later.

She attended Badminton school in Bristol. In 1950, she received a scholarship to study English literature at St Hilda's College, Oxford.

Personal life

Joseph Coles married Charles Coles in 1961. The couple had three children, Martin, Nell, and Bec, as well as the Greyhound, a west London pub, although Joseph was still writing. They divorced and Joseph returned to Gloucestershire. "To my children, writers, readers of literature, and life-savers," she wrote in 1978.

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Career

Her poems were first published when she was at university in the early 1950s. She became a journalist and worked with the Bedfordshire Times, the Oxford Mail, and Drum Publications (Johannesburg, South Africa).

In 1960, she received a Gregory Award for her second collection, Rose in the Afternoon, and in 1974, she was a migrant poet.

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Awards and honours

• 1960 Gregory Award for Unlooked-for Season
• 1974 Cholmondeley Award for Rose in the Afternoon
• 1986 James Tait Black Memorial Prize for her fiction Persephone
• 1995 Travelling scholarship by the Society of Authors.
• 1999 Fellowship of the Royal Society of Literature in 1999.