Alison Brackenbury Explained

Alison Brackenbury
Birth Place:	Gainsborough, Lincolnshire, England, UK
Nationality:	British

Alison Brackenbury (born 1953 Gainsborough, Lincolnshire^[1]) is a British poet.

Life

After studying English at St Hugh's College, Oxford^[1] she now lives in Gloucestershire.^[2] Her work has appeared in the Kenyon Review,^[3] Ploughshares^[4] and Stand.^[5]

Awards

• Eric Gregory Award
• Poetry Book Society Recommendation.
• 1994 Glen Rybertt Award
• 1997 Cholmondeley Award

Works

• "In the gap"; "Affairs"; "Plucked from", The Chimera, October 2007
• "When"; "Mud"; "March ending"; "Passing", nthposition, March 2008
• "6.25", The Guardian, 2 February 2008
• Obit. Magma 39. November 2007 .
• Autumn Street. Magma 19 .
• Have you heard?; The story of Sigurd; A fuel blockade. Signals. Summer 2004 .
• Book: Dreams of Power . Carcanet New Press. 1981. 978-0-85635-352-9 .
• Book: Breaking Ground . Carcanet. 1985. 978-0-85635-503-5 .
• Book: Christmas Roses . Carcanet. 1988. 978-0-85635-750-3 .
• Book: Selected Poems . Carcanet. 1991. 978-0-85635-924-8 .
• Book: 1829 . Carcanet. 1995. 978-1-85754-122-9 .
• Book: After Beethoven . Carcanet. 2000. 978-1-85754-454-1 .
• Book: Bricks and Ballads . Carcanet. 2004. 978-1-85754-751-1 .
• Book: Singing in the dark . Carcanet. 2008. 978-1-85754-914-0 .
• Book: Shadow . HappenStance. 2009 . 978-1-905939-35-0 .

External links

• "Author's website"
• Alison Brackenbury reads poems on PoetCasting
• "Interview: Alison Brackenbury talks to Paul Stevens", The Chimaera, May 2008

Notes and References

1. https://www.poetryarchive.org/poet/alison-brackenbury Alison Brackenbury | poetryarchive.org
2. Web site: The Chimaera, October 2007: Alison Brackenbury. www.the-chimaera.com. 2016-04-11. https://web.archive.org/web/20160303185106/http://www.the-chimaera.com/October2007/Various/Brackenbury.html. 3 March 2016. dead. dmy-all.
3. 4337249 . Alison Brackenbury . The Kenyon Review . 1995 . 17 . 3/4 . 77–78. Brackenbury . Alison .
4. Web site: Read By Author Ploughshares. www.pshares.org. 2016-04-11.
5. Book: Stand. 1970 . en.