Havisham 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 wedding-day trauma and jilted abandonment. Duffy's use of language is very powerful and passionate. Throughout the poem oxymorons and juxtaposition such as ""Beloved sweetheart bastard"" and ""Love's hate"" portrays the ambivalence and restless uncertainty of the character, while a
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