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Alison Brackenbury was born in Lincolnshire in 1953 and studied at Oxford. She now lives in Gloucestershire, where she works, as a director and manual worker, in the family metal finishing business. Her Carcanet collections include Dreams of Power (1981), Breaking Ground (1984), Christmas Roses (1988), Selected Poems (1991), 1829 (1995), After Beethoven (2000) and Bricks and Ballads (2004). Her poems have been included on BBC Radio 3 and 4, and 1829 was produced by Julian May for Radio 3. Her work recently won a Cholmondeley Award.

Stand Magazine, Volume 9(1) Alison Brackenbury's seventh collection Singing in the Dark , was published by Carcanet in 2008. read more

The first time I read Alison Brackenbury's Singing in the Dark I read it from cover to cover, and found it a cumulatively rewarding experience. read more

Alison Brackenbury's use of the natural world's routines in Singing in the Dark exerts a grip on Charles Bainbridge Singing in the Dark is Alison Brackenbury's seventh collection of poetry. read more

In Singing in the Dark , Brackenbury employs the seemingly simple English ballad (invented, more or less, by Wordsworth, and later favoured by the likes of Auden and Edward Thomas) to grapple with knotty modernity - a clash of form and content that carries the risk of wistfulness but, at its most effective, throws up compelling antitheses read more

Edmund O'Connor, Chapman , issue 107, Summer 2005
Alison Brackenbury reflects on life and schooldays in Bricks and Ballads . While mulling over old science lessions is not exactly original, there is spareness and sublety here. read more

Jeremy Noel-Tod in the Daily Telegraph , 30 October 2004
'The "lyrical ballad" originates in the radical early poetry of Wordsworth and Coleridge. read more

Alison Brackenbury's own website can be found at www.alisonbrackenbury.co.uk

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Alison Brackenbury Books by this author: Then Singing in the Dark Bricks and Ballads After Beethoven 1829 Selected Poems Christmas Roses Breaking Ground Dreams of Power About Reviews Alison Brackenbury was born in Lincolnshire in 1953 and studied at Oxford. She now lives in Gloucestershire, where she works, as a director and manual worker, in the family metal finishing business. Her Carcanet collections include Dreams of Power (1981), Breaking Ground (1984), Christmas Roses (1988), Selected Poems (1991), 1829 (1995), After Beethoven (2000) and Bricks and Ballads (2004). Her poems have been included on BBC Radio 3 and 4, and 1829 was produced by Julian May for Radio 3. Her work recently won a Cholmondeley Award. Stand Magazine, Volume 9(1) Alison Brackenbury's seventh collection Singing in the Dark , was published by Carcanet in 2008. read more The first time I read Alison Brackenbury's Singing in the Dark I read it from cover to cover, and found it a cumulatively rewarding experience. read more Alison Brackenbury's use of the natural world's routines in Singing in the Dark exerts a grip on Charles Bainbridge Singing in the Dark is Alison Brackenbury's seventh collection of poetry. read more In Singing in the Dark , Brackenbury employs the seemingly simple English ballad (invented, more or less, by Wordsworth, and later favoured by the likes of Auden and Edward Thomas) to grapple with knotty modernity - a clash of form and content that carries the risk of wistfulness but, at its most effective, throws up compelling antitheses read more Edmund O'Connor, Chapman , issue 107, Summer 2005 Alison Brackenbury reflects on life and schooldays in Bricks and Ballads . While mulling over old science lessions is not exactly original, there is spareness and sublety here. read more Jeremy Noel-Tod in the Daily Telegraph , 30 October 2004 'The "lyrical ballad" originates in the radical early poetry of Wordsworth and Coleridge. read more Alison Brackenbury's own website can be found at www.alisonbrackenbury.co.uk	Share this... Quick Links Aspects of Portugal Audio Books Carcanet Fiction Carcanet Film Carcanet Poetry Comma Press FyfieldBooks Lintott Press Lives and Letters OxfordPoets PN Review Sheep Meadow Press The Carcanet Blog Richard Price: A Month in Portugal read more Let's Gimbal! read more Carcanet New Poetry Showcase: The Audience Writes Back read more John Gallas: A Little Andaluciad read more Carcanet Poetry Showcase: 30th April read more The Manchester Writing Competition 2013 read more
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