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Skies
The beauty of the Goucestershire landscape and sky-scape are Alison Brackenbury's commanding theme, her landscapes are historied, the skies always in vivid motion, moving towards elegy. The two World Wars and their poets are present, but also the nearer histories of family, the intimate arrest of older poems.
- GenresPoetry
87 pages, Paperback
Published April 1, 2016
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Alison Brackenbury
24 books17 followersAlison 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 has worked as a librarian in a technical college (1976-83), then as a part-time accounts and clerical assistant (1985-1989). Since 1990 she has worked in the family metal finishing business. She is married, with one daughter, and lives in Gloucestershire.
She has worked as a librarian in a technical college (1976-83), then as a part-time accounts and clerical assistant (1985-1989). Since 1990 she has worked in the family metal finishing business. She is married, with one daughter, and lives in Gloucestershire.
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August 12, 2017I love this so hard it hurts.
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September 17, 2022"But here it is. The baby greenfinch flies
out of the lane's dust, with an olive sheen
blooming his back, each tender shade between
to lemon wing-bars, safe from farm-cats' eyes.
For half a mile it bobs below the showers,
flits to a tree; embroiders elderflowers" (Half-Fledged, 20).
out of the lane's dust, with an olive sheen
blooming his back, each tender shade between
to lemon wing-bars, safe from farm-cats' eyes.
For half a mile it bobs below the showers,
flits to a tree; embroiders elderflowers" (Half-Fledged, 20).
December 21, 2017
Brackenbury’s poem The Horse’s Mouth inspired by ‘The Remnants of an Army’, Elizabeth Butler’s painting of one survivor of the massacre of sixteen thousand British soldiers and camp followers in the First Afghan War, 1842 should be on every school reading list.
Reviewed on The BookBlast® Diary 2016
Reviewed on The BookBlast® Diary 2016
July 9, 2025
Where do I begin... oh my gosh.
I am forever grateful that I picked this book up. I don't quite remember how I found this poetry book but WOW. I have many favourites from this collection including 'So', 'At the bus stop' and 'Amy' to name a few. Brackenbury's usage of words are memorable, real and just simply incredible.
The stunning use of paragraphs, rhymes and the imagery it provoked for me personally was simply fantastic. The poems are easy to read. Easy to dip in and out of, came with me during a hospital stay and albeit I was unwell I read a few paragraphs and I honestly believe this book could save a lot of people.
5 Stars.
I am forever grateful that I picked this book up. I don't quite remember how I found this poetry book but WOW. I have many favourites from this collection including 'So', 'At the bus stop' and 'Amy' to name a few. Brackenbury's usage of words are memorable, real and just simply incredible.
The stunning use of paragraphs, rhymes and the imagery it provoked for me personally was simply fantastic. The poems are easy to read. Easy to dip in and out of, came with me during a hospital stay and albeit I was unwell I read a few paragraphs and I honestly believe this book could save a lot of people.
5 Stars.
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