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Thorpeness

ISBN-13: 9781800172258
Publisher: CARCANET PRESS
Imprint: CARCANET PRESS
By Alison Brackenbury
Price: AUD $32.99
Stock: 9 in stock
Availability: Order will be despatched as soon as possible.
Local release date: 10/06/2022
Format: Paperback (216.00mm X 135.00mm) 144 pages Weight: 150g
Categories: Poetry by individual poets [DCF]

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Google Preview: A new collection from this widely-celebrated and much-loved poet.; 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, including ‘Singing in the Dark’, about the stubborn survival of traditional song, which was a ‘Radio Times’ Choice. She contributes regularly to Radio 4’s arts programme, ‘Front Row’, and has recently read her work live on Radio 4’s ‘Today’ programme.; * New collection from this widely-celebrated and much-loved poet, with a strong and passionate online fanbase * Collection takes its name from the village on the Suffolk coast, just north of Aldeburgh (and of Benjamin Britten and George Crabbe fame) - a place the poet aims to reach * On the journey there, the single lyric, topographical and nature poems in this book encounter warmth, warning and wonder * Alison is a poet of nature and bird life, as well as English rural/village life with its still surviving communities and vocations; 'Alison Brackenbury loves, lives, hymns and rhymes the natural world and its people like no other poet.' - Gillian Clarke; Google Preview content