These Purple Years - Fielden, Amelia
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A long while ago, I heard of an old Japanese tradition which associates the colour purple with the seventies, and endorses it as appropriate for wearing by people in that venerable age group. Then, when I turned seventy, I joined the Red Hat Society, founded in the USA in 1997 as 'the place where there is fun over fifty'. This society takes for its motto, so to speak, a poem called 'Warning', by the UK poet Jenny Joseph (1932-). The first verse of 'Warning' begins thus: When I am an old woman I shall wear purple With a red hat which doesn't go and doesn't suit me. And I shall spend my pension…mehr

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A long while ago, I heard of an old Japanese tradition which associates the colour purple with the seventies, and endorses it as appropriate for wearing by people in that venerable age group. Then, when I turned seventy, I joined the Red Hat Society, founded in the USA in 1997 as 'the place where there is fun over fifty'. This society takes for its motto, so to speak, a poem called 'Warning', by the UK poet Jenny Joseph (1932-). The first verse of 'Warning' begins thus: When I am an old woman I shall wear purple With a red hat which doesn't go and doesn't suit me. And I shall spend my pension on brandy and summer gloves And satin sandals, and say we've no money for butter. I shall sit down on the pavement when I'm tired … And make up for the sobriety of my youth! A nice synchronicity between East and West, isn't it? Loving the colour purple, I quite often wear it, not just to Red Hat Society functions. I was born in 1941, and most of the tanka in this book have been written and published during my 'purple years'.
Autorenporträt
Amelia Fielden composes mainly in traditional Japanese forms such as tanka but is interested in all genres of poetry. She finds that the reading and workshopping of her peers' writings at The Moorings' meetings provide very effective stimuli for her own creativity. Having her work critiqued in a positive and well-informed environment also brings about improvement and, in some cases, publication success. Amelia is not much of a desk poet. Most of her poems are sketched out in her head while she is walking her dog or swimming.