Alison Brackenbury: 2 books
by Alison Brackenbury
Language: English
Release Date: May 1, 2013
Language: English
Release Date: May 1, 2013
In her latest collection, Alison Brackenbury draws on her lifetime’s experience of rural England, its people, and its ways. From the lapwings of her childhood Lincolnshire to the recent floods in Gloucestershire and the signs of a changing climate, the poems reach urgently to both past and future....
by Alison Brackenbury
Language: English
Release Date: January 1, 2017
Language: English
Release Date: January 1, 2017
The beauty of the Goucestershire landscape and sky-scape are Alison Brackenbury's commanding theme, her landscapes are historied, the skies always in vivid motion, moving towards elegy. The two World Wars and their poets are present, but also the nearer histories of family, the intimate arrest of older poems.