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Selected Poems

ISBN-13: 9781784106959
Publisher: CARCANET PRESS
Imprint: CARCANET PRESS
By Alison Brackenbury
Price: AUD $32.99
Stock: 2 in stock
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Local release date: 25/03/2019
Format: Undefined (216.00mm X 135.00mm) 216 pages Weight: 360g
Categories: Poetry by individual poets [DCF]

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Google Preview: Alison Brackenbury's poems are haunted by horses, unseasonable love, history, hares and unreasonable hope. Brackenbury's Selected Poems begins in the almost Victorian villages of remote Lincolnshire, where her father tramped, as a ploughboy, behind great Shires and Percherons. Her acclaimed early poem, ‘Dreams of Power’, gives voice to a little-known woman from the past, Arbella Stuart, and her still-contemporary choices: safe solitude, fashionable London, dangerous love. Her song-like poems draw on years of experience of bookkeeping and manual work in industry, of VAT, of trichloroethylene on ‘a thrumming lorry’. The poems take readers to northern China winters and the damp heat of Hanoi. And always the countryside returns: its mud, its huge hares, its stubborn sun. After nine books, major prizes and national broadcasts, the rush of Brackenbury's poems are a work in wonderful progress, full of surprises and renewals.; Alison Brackenbury was born in Lincolnshire in 1953. She has published nine collections of poetry. Her work has been awarded an Eric Gregory Award and a Cholmondeley Award by the Society of Authors. For over thirty years, her poems have appeared in Britain’s major poetry journals. She also reviews poetry for a wide range of publications. Her work has frequently been featured on BBC Radio, and she has written six full-length radio features. She contributes regularly to Radio 4’s arts programme, ‘Front Row’, and has recently read her work live on Radio 4’s ‘Today’ programme.; * Music of many kinds feature throughout, highlighting love and the darkness beyond its door, but many short and warmly humorous poems are also included. * Poems focus on an array of subjects: all animals – but especially horses; history, vivid with injustice; the countryside she has walked, ridden, but never owned. * The work plays through clear meaning and rhyme, appealing to lovers of traditional English poetry. * Alison Brackenbury is renowned for her active championing of poetry via the Internet. She has over 2,000 Facebook Friends and over 4,000 followers on Twitter. * Alison Brackenbury’s work has featured on Radio 4, with 6 extended appearances during the last 5 years, including a live reading of her work on Radio 4’s ‘Today’ programme. More national radio projects involving her work are in the BBC pipeline.; Google Preview content