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Alison Brackenbury

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Alison Brackenbury loves, lives, hymns and rhymes the natural world and its people like no other poet.

Werke von Alison Brackenbury

Then (1900) 9 Exemplare
Skies (2016) 8 Exemplare
Gallop: Selected Poems (2019) 4 Exemplare
After Beethoven (2000) 3 Exemplare
1829 (1995) 3 Exemplare
Selected poems (1991) 2 Exemplare
Bricks and ballads (2004) 2 Exemplare
Singing in the dark (2008) 2 Exemplare
AUNT MARGARET'S PUDDING (2018) 2 Exemplare
Christmas Roses (1988) 1 Exemplar
The Story of Sigurd 1 Exemplar
Thorpeness (2022) 1 Exemplar
Quartet: The Four Seasons (2018) — Mitwirkender — 1 Exemplar
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Then von Alison Brackenbury
Some wonderful poems in the first third of this collection, but there's a severe drop-off of quality towards the later end. It's not a long book either (only 90 pages or so) so that's disappointing.

The better poems are those where Brackenbury (great name) uses her excellent ear for rhyme and rhythm, and writes with a quiet emotion: like in the excellent 'Bath Cubes', which turns a potentially-tasteless symbol of cheap fragrance into one of bittersweet sadness for lost friends.

Elsewhere, sadly (particularly in a run of late poems about her horse) Brackenbury's poems lose all delicacy, and read like the musings of a blinkered Home Counties grandmother. A lesson about quality over quantity perhaps.… (mehr)
 
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