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"She is… incontrovertibly
the real thing."
Peter Forbes, editor of "Poetry Review"
Singing
in the Dark
Carcanet, 28 Feb 2008
ISBN-10: 1 85754 914 7
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The robin brushes me at
dusk.
Our good bones fail. We leave no mark.
His voice, she writes, was clear and quiet.
I hear him singing in the dark.
(“Edward Thomas’ Daughter”)
The highlights of “Singing in the Dark” are
lyrics from Alison Brackenbury’s recent radio poems,
acclaimed by the critics:
"A quiet lyricism and delight"
Charles
Bainbridge, The Guardian
“Enchants”
The Times
“Glorious”
Gillian Reynolds, The Daily Telegraph
“Filigreed with images of light and
dark throughout, it’s evocative, amusing and utterly
compelling”.
Frances Lass, Radio Times
From Edward Thomas’ army songs to Nick
Drake’s guitar, Alison Brackenbury’s book brings
music for dark times.
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“Singing in the Dark” was selected
by the Guardian as one of its Books of the Year:
“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 …throws up compelling antitheses.”
Sarah Crown, The Guardian Unlimited |
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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.
"Her combination of music and mystery shines through.
By updating the ballad form to incorporate a more sophisticated
lyric sensibility and introspective voice, Brackenbury reinvigorates
the tradition and makes it her own."
Jane Yeh, The Times
Literary Supplement
"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
Lydbury |
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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
All Alison Brackenbury's books on
Amazon.co.uk
Anthologies
My work has appeared in a variety of anthologies,
including:
Say This of Horses
Eds. C.E.Greer and J.Kander, University of Iowa Press, 2007.
ISBN 1 58729 526 1
Poetry Daily Essentials, 2007
Eds. Diane Boller and Don Selby, Sourcebooks Inc, 2007
ISBN 1 4022 0927 4
Images of Women
Eds. Myra Schneider and Dilys Wood, Arrowhead/Second Light, 2006
ISBN 1904 852 149
Light unlocked: Christmas card poems.
Eds.Kevin Crossley-Holland and Lawrence Sail,
Enitharmon, 2005.
ISBN 1904634184
Hutchinson book of post-war British poets.
Ed. Dannie Abse, Hutchinson, 1989.
ISBN 0 09 173796 6
Sixty women poets.
Ed. Linda France, Bloodaxe, 1993.
ISBN 1 85224 252 3
British Council New Writing 5.
Eds. Christopher Hope and Peter Porter, Vintage, 1996.
ISBN 0 09 954541 1
Penguin book of poetry from Britain & Ireland
since 1945.
Eds. Simon Armitage and Robert Crawford, Viking, 1998.
ISBN 0670883255
Sounding the century.
Ed. Peter Forbes, Viking, 1999.
ISBN 0 670 88011 6
101 Poems to Keep You Sane
Ed Daisy Goodwin, Harper Collins, 2001.
ISBN 0007106505
The way you say the world: a celebration
for Anne Stevenson
Lucas, J. & Simpson, M., Shoestring Press, 2003.
ISBN 1 899549 773
Red sky at night: socialist poetry
Croft, A. & Mitchell, A., Five Leaves, 2003.
ISBN 0907123 49X
The Forward Book of Poetry 2005.
Forward, 2004. ISBN 0571 226574
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