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Alison Brackenbury

Auteur van Skies

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

Werken van Alison Brackenbury

Skies (2016) 9 exemplaren
Then (1900) 9 exemplaren
Gallop: Selected Poems (2019) 4 exemplaren
After Beethoven (2000) 3 exemplaren
1829 (1995) 3 exemplaren
Selected poems (1991) 2 exemplaren
Bricks and ballads (2004) 2 exemplaren
Singing in the dark (2008) 2 exemplaren
AUNT MARGARET'S PUDDING (2018) 2 exemplaren
Christmas Roses (1988) 1 exemplaar
The Story of Sigurd 1 exemplaar
Thorpeness (2022) 1 exemplaar
Quartet: The Four Seasons (2018) — Medewerker — 1 exemplaar
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Then door 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.… (meer)
 
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sometimeunderwater | Jan 26, 2015 |
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Werken
13
Ook door
1
Leden
40
Populariteit
#370,100
Waardering
½ 2.5
Besprekingen
1
ISBNs
20