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ThenAlison Brackenbury![]()
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ISBN: 978 1 847777 72 0 Categories: 21st Century, British, Women Imprint: Carcanet Poetry Published: April 2013 96 pages (print version) Publisher: Carcanet Press Also available in: eBook (EPUB), Paperback Spend GBP 15 or more and receive a free Carcanet tote bag.
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Then draws on Alison Brackenbury’s lifetime’s experience of rural England, its people and its ways, and the threats to its survival. From the lapwings of her childhood Lincolnshire to the recurrent floods in Gloucestershire, where she has lived for many years, the poems reach urgently to both past and future, finding connections and disconnections. The signs of a changing climate are emblematic of larger erasures. The poems keenly focus the beauty and the harshness of the natural world. They remind us of our own fragility, and our responsibility: ‘We are made of water. But we forgot.’
'Alison Brackenbury loves, lives, hymns and rhymes the natural world and its people like no other poet.' Gillian Clarke
Praise for Alison Brackenbury
'Brackenbury makes rhyming seem easy in work that is clever, controlled, eccentric and thoroughly British in both subject matter and tone.'
David Starkey, Santa Barbara Independent 'Brackenbury is a poet of strong feeling, deeply involved with her subject matter. That the work is cast with such craft and needs to do so little to draw attention to itself makes it all the more pleasurable.' Jonathan Davidson, Poetry Review 'Alison Brackenbury's ninth collection of poems is a humble, often humorous, celebration of the everyday and the privileges of age.' - Harriet Barker, TLS 'It is her immediate response to the natural world happenings, the seasons, family and memories, and all life's incidentals that make her poems so easy to relate to.' - D. A. Prince, The North 'Filigreed with images of light and dark throughout, it's evocative, amusing and utterly compelling.' Frances Lass, Radio Times 'Glorious' Gillian Reynolds, Daily Telegraph 'Enchants' The Times 'Alison Brackenbury loves, lives, hymns and rhymes the natural world and its people like no other poet.' Gillian Clarke, National Poet of Wales |
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