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Singing in the Dark
Alison Brackenbury
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Description for Singing in the Dark
Paperback. Includes poems about birds and animals, the ancient rhythms of weather, landscape and season. Num Pages: 96 pages. BIC Classification: DCF. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 218 x 136 x 9. Weight in Grams: 132.
Alison Brackenbury's ballads for the modern world sing with a truth and directness that reach back through Edward Thomas and John Clare to the English folk-tradition itself. There are poems about birds and animals, the ancient rhythms of weather, landscape and season. The modern world is held in balance: terrorism, foreign war and domestic tension.
Alison Brackenbury's ballads for the modern world sing with a truth and directness that reach back through Edward Thomas and John Clare to the English folk-tradition itself. There are poems about birds and animals, the ancient rhythms of weather, landscape and season. The modern world is held in balance: terrorism, foreign war and domestic tension.
Product Details
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2008
Publisher
Carcanet Press Ltd United Kingdom
Number of pages
96
Condition
New
Place of Publication
Manchester, United Kingdom
ISBN
9781857549140
SKU
V9781857549140
Shipping Time
Usually ships in 15 to 20 working days
Ref
99-32
About Alison Brackenbury
ALISON BRACKENBURY was born in Lincolnshire in 1953 and studied at Oxford. She now lives in Gloucestershire, where she works, as a director and manual worker, in the family metal finishing business. Her Carcanet 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). Her ... Read more
Reviews for Singing in the Dark
'Enchants' The Times'Glorious' Gillian Reynolds, Daily Telegraph'Filigreed with images of light and dark throughout, it's evocative, amusing and utterly compelling.' Frances Lass, Radio Times