Havisham bite awake. Love's hate behind a white veil; a red balloon bursting in my face. Bang. I stabbed at a wedding-cake. Give me a male corpse for a long slow honeymoon. Don't think it's only the heart that b-b-b-breaks. Havisham "Havisham" is a poem written in 1993 by Carol Ann Duffy. It responds to Charles Dickens' character "Miss Havisham" from his novel "Great Expectations", looking at Havisham's mental and physical state many decades after being left standing at the altar, when the bride-to-be is in her old age. It expresses Havisham's anger at her fiancé and her bitter rage over
Does Anybody Miss Me tunes. The title track "Does Anybody Miss Me" was issued as a single in the UK, backed with the non album track "Fa Fa Fa", but this failed to make any impression on the chart. "Does Anybody Miss Me" has remained part of her live show and was recorded as the opening track of the album "Live At Talk Of The Town" in 1970. This album saw Bassey re-record her 1958 UK #1 hit single "As I Love You" which she had previously released on the Philips label. Also issued in the US as "Does Anybody Miss Me" there the