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An admission: I am not very keen on writing biographical notes about myself, but I am told they may be useful. If you need any facts which are not rattling around the bare bones which follow, please contact me via the Home Page. You might also like to try the articles and interview listed below. Alison Brackenbury was born in 1953 in Gainsborough, Lincolnshire. She went to the village school at Willoughton and then to Brigg High School. She studied for an English degree at St Hugh's College, Oxford. She has worked as a librarian in a technical college (1976-83), then as a part-time accounts and clerical assistant (1985-1989). Since 1990 she has worked in the family metal finishing business. She is married, with one daughter, and lives in Gloucestershire. I am always pleased to be asked to do a reading and will always do my best to go. Unfortunately my job makes it impossible for me to travel during working hours on a weekday, so I am normally only available for weekend events. Articles on my work appear in: DICTIONARY OF LITERARY BIOGRAPHY 40 OXFORD COMPANION TO TWENTIETH CENTURY POETRY WORLD AUTHORS 1995-2000 Mind the Gap: the Poem and the
Radio. The Muse and the Mouse (Internet
poetry) The restoration of Lucy Hutchinson
PN Review, Vol 27, No 5, 2001, p. 9. An interview (by Vicki Bertram) appears in
PN Review 132, Vol 26, No 4 (March-April 2000), pages 31-33. Eric Gregory Award, 1982 Cholmondeley Award, 1997 My work has appeared in a variety of anthologies, including: Hutchinson book of post-war British poets. Sixty women poets. British Council New Writing 5. Penguin book of poetry from Britain &
Ireland since 1945. Sounding the century. 101 Poems to Keep You Sane The way you say the world: a celebration
for Anne Stevenson For the last 20 years, my poems have appeared
regularly on BBC Radio 3 & 4. I have had poems published in "The Glasgow Herald", "The Independent" and "The Sunday Times" and in the following magazines: Acumen, Agenda, Boomerang,
Critical Quarterly, The Jacaranda Review (USA), The Kenyon Review
(USA), The Listener, The London Review of Books, Magma,
Metre, New Statesman, The North, Ploughshares
(USA), PN Review,
Poetry London,
Poetry
Review, Poetry Wales, The Rialto, Signals,
Smiths Knoll, Smoke, Snakeskin,
The Spectator, Stand, The Times Literary Supplement, Thumbscrew. Dreams of Power. Carcanet, 1981. Breaking Ground. Carcanet, 1984. Christmas Roses. Carcanet, 1987. N.B. A selection of the poems in these books is still available in Selected poems. Carcanet,
1991. which can be ordered via the Books page on this site, or from http://www.carcanet.co.uk |
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