Collected Poems
Published on 30. June 2006
Book
Hardback
480 pages
978-1-904634-21-8 (ISBN)
Description
Alan Brownjohn has previously published two acclaimed volumes of "Collected Poems". This third edition adds over 140 poems to the second, which appeared as long ago as the end of the 1980s. It comprises all the work he wishes to retain from twelve individual books spanning six decades, as well as a number of new, uncollected poems. Wide ranging in theme and displaying an impressive mastery of form, this body of writing firmly establishes Alan Brownjohn's achievement as central to the English poetry of the last half-century.
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Person
Alan Brownjohn was born in 1931 and educated at Brockley County School and Merton College, Oxford. He was a teacher in schools and higher education for twenty-four years and has been a freelance writer and literary journalist since 1979. Among his individual books are The Railings (1961), The Lion's Mouths (1967), A Night in the Gazebo (1980), The Observation Car (1990), and two collections from Enitharmon, The Cat Without E-mail and The Men Around Her Bed. Alan Brownjohn's 'powerful range and depth' was admired by Malcom Bradbury and a recent critic has described his poetry as 'urbane, playful and sardonic.'