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"She is… incontrovertibly
the real thing."
Peter Forbes, editor of "Poetry Review"
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Bricks and Ballads (Poems),
Carcanet, 2004.
ISBN 1 85754 751 9
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Ballads are memorable.
This book was finished when the poet was fifty, with too much
to remember: the shadows of the wider world, the bulldozers
tearing down a Victorian school with its graceful green belltower
and its nesting jackdaws turned to a cry in the air.
"Alison Brackenbury confronts today's world of ill-defined
threat and anxiety with the "bricks and ballads"
of a deeply rooted verse tradition. Each poem, like a pebble
thrown into a common pond, sends ripples travelling to the
edges."
Anne Stevenson |
The Story of Sigurd,
The Gruffyground Press, 2003.
ISBN 090557 226 2
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A fine press limited signed edition of
nine new poems, traditionally printed by Sebastian Carter
at the Rampant Lions Press on mould-made paper and illustrated
by a specially commissioned wood engraving (right, by permission)
by the artist Jane Lydbury.
It is available at £32, including post and packing,
from The Gruffyground Press, Ladram, Sidcot, Winscombe, Somerset,
BS25 1PW. |
woodcut by Jane
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After Beethoven
(Poems), Carcanet, 2000.
ISBN 185754 454 4
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"Poems that seem
subtler each time we reread them."
Stephen Burt, "Times Literary Supplement"
"Brackenbury at her
best."
William Oxley, "Orbis"
"Would we recommend?
A definite and enthusiastic YES."
Sue Wade, "Poetry Review" |
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1829 (Poems),
Carcanet, 1995.
ISBN 185754 122 7
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"Figures from a lively
historical imagination…
but her sharpest look takes in the here-and-now."
Carol Rumens, "Poetry Review"
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Selected Poems,
Carcanet, 1991
ISBN 085635 924 6
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"A visionary quality."
James Aitchison, "Glasgow Herald" |
N.B. The books published by
Carcanet can also be ordered via their website www.carcanet.co.uk
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