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Pam Ayres' career book sales to date exceed 2.5 million. |
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There are poems by Pam Ayres in School English Textbooks throughout the world, including: UK, Hong Kong, Australia, New Zealand, Holland, Poland, Scandinavia, USA, South Africa, and Zimbabwe. |
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Pam Ayres' children's novel, The Nubbler (Pub. 1997, Weidenfeld & Nicolson) was translated into Japanese. |
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Often referred to as The People's Poet, one of Pam Ayres' poems was voted into the UK's Top Ten Comic Poems in a survey commissioned by the BBC in 1998. |
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In the UK Arts Council’s report on poetry, Rhyme and Reason, (Pub.2000) the report identified Pam Ayres as being the fifth best-selling poet during the years 1998 & 1999, following Ted Hughes, Seamus Heaney, Carol Ann Duffy, and Sylvia Plath. |
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More recently, in 2002 one of Pam's latest poems, They Should Have Asked My Husband, was selected by listeners to be repeated on BBC Radio 4's programme Pick Of The Week, and subsequently on Pick Of The Year. |
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Pam Ayres has performed her solo show for a private performance for HM The Queen at St. James' Palace. |
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In the 2004 Ledbury Poetry Festival, (described by Poet Laureate Andrew Motion as "the best in the country"), Pam Ayres' show is the fastest-selling event of the Festival. |
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2005 will mark 30 years since Pam Ayres first appeared on TV's Opportunity Knocks, and it is undeniable that her work over that period has paved the way for the increase in the popularity of poetry generally, and performance poetry in particular. |
