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.

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1800172257
• ISBN13: 9781800172258
• Release Date: April 2022
• Publisher: Carcanet Press
• Length: 104 Pages
• Weight: 0.30 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.4" x 5.3" x 8.3"