Poetry at Pembroke: Alison Brackenbury (with open mic)
PAST EVENT | 08 May 2019 18:00
This event is free and open to all.
Alison Brackenbury was born in 1953 in Lincolnshire. She went to the village school at Willoughton and then to Brigg High School. She studied for an English degree at St Hugh’s College, Oxford. She worked as a librarian in a technical college, then as a part-time accounts and clerical assistant. From 1990 until her retirement in 2012, she worked in the family metal-finishing business. She is married, with one daughter, and lives in Gloucestershire.
Her poetry collections include Dreams of Power (1981), Breaking Ground (1984), Christmas Roses (1988), Selected Poems (1991), 1829 (1995), After Beethoven (2000), and Bricks and Ballads (2004), Singing in the Dark (2008), Shadow. HappenStance (2009), Then (2013), Skies (2016), Aunt Margaret’s Pudding (2018), and her latest selected poems, Gallop (2019). She has received a Cholmondeley Award and an Eric Gregory Award, and her poems have been featured many times on BBC Radio 3 and 4.
Her work has won an Eric Gregory Award and a Cholmondeley Award, and has frequently been broadcast on B.B.C. Radios 3 and 4. “Alison Brackenbury loves, lives, hymns and rhymes the natural world and its people like no other poet”. Gillian Clarke, former National Poet of Wales.
New poems can be read on her website: http://alisonbrackenbury.co.uk/
Poetry at Pembroke: Alison Brackenbury (with open mic)
PAST EVENT | 08 May 2019 18:00
This event is free and open to all.
Alison Brackenbury was born in 1953 in Lincolnshire. She went to the village school at Willoughton and then to Brigg High School. She studied for an English degree at St Hugh’s College, Oxford. She worked as a librarian in a technical college, then as a part-time accounts and clerical assistant. From 1990 until her retirement in 2012, she worked in the family metal-finishing business. She is married, with one daughter, and lives in Gloucestershire.
Her poetry collections include Dreams of Power (1981), Breaking Ground (1984), Christmas Roses (1988), Selected Poems (1991), 1829 (1995), After Beethoven (2000), and Bricks and Ballads (2004), Singing in the Dark (2008), Shadow. HappenStance (2009), Then (2013), Skies (2016), Aunt Margaret’s Pudding (2018), and her latest selected poems, Gallop (2019). She has received a Cholmondeley Award and an Eric Gregory Award, and her poems have been featured many times on BBC Radio 3 and 4.
Her work has won an Eric Gregory Award and a Cholmondeley Award, and has frequently been broadcast on B.B.C. Radios 3 and 4. “Alison Brackenbury loves, lives, hymns and rhymes the natural world and its people like no other poet”. Gillian Clarke, former National Poet of Wales.
New poems can be read on her website: http://alisonbrackenbury.co.uk/