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. Brackenbury's work has been featured on BBC Radio and she was recently awarded a Cholmondeley.
About the author
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 poems have been included on BBC Radio 3 and 4, and 1829 was produced by Julian May for Radio 3. Her work recently won a Cholmondeley Award.
Reviews
"Alison Brackenbury loves, lives, hymns and rhymes the natural world and its people like no other poet" – Gillian Clarke, National Poet of Wales