Thorpeness

By Alison Brackenbury

There is something richly circumstantial about Alison Brackenbury's poems: they are often rooted in a rural world, or in townscapes which sustain communities and preserve a strong sense of their history and what it gives them.Thorpeness has delicious surprises, among them 'Aunt Margaret's Pudding', a rewarding culinary experience based on a black-covered handwritten notebook of recipes from Dorothy Eliza Barnes, 'Dot', the poet's grandmother. 'When I knew Dot, she was a Lincolnshire shepherd's wife. But, as a young woman, she had been an Edwardian professional cook,' the poet explains, making her notebook a resource for the contemporary reader.The world of nature birds, plants, weathers comes alive in poem after poem, but there are also important poems of nurture. Brackenbury belongs in a long line of rural and provincial poets who bring England alive in forms and rhythms of renewal. She is a familiar radio voice, performing her won poems and narrating programmes she has scripted.

• Language: English
• Publisher: Independent Publishers Group
• Release date: Apr 28, 2022
• ISBN: 9781800172265

Alison Brackenbury

Alison Brackenbury was born in Lincolnshire in 1953, from a long line of skilled farm workers. For the last forty years she has lived in Gloucestershire, where her varied jobs included twenty-three years working with her husband as a metal finisher. Her poems (written in small gaps between work, child, horses, addictions to music and grassroots politi) have won an Eric Gregory and a Cholmondeley Award. Recently retired from her day job, she has become increasingly interested in performing her poetry, usually by heart.

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