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Ten Poems about Horses (Paperback): Alison Brackenbury Ten Poems about Horses (Paperback)
Alison Brackenbury
R143 Discovery Miles 1 430 Ships in 12 - 17 working days
Thorpeness (Paperback): Alison Brackenbury Thorpeness (Paperback)
Alison Brackenbury
R380 R307 Discovery Miles 3 070 Save R73 (19%) Ships in 9 - 15 working days

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.

Gallop - Selected Poems (Paperback): Alison Brackenbury Gallop - Selected Poems (Paperback)
Alison Brackenbury
R388 R316 Discovery Miles 3 160 Save R72 (19%) Ships in 9 - 15 working days

Alison Brackenbury's poems are haunted by horses, unseasonable love, history, hares, and unreasonable hope. Brackenbury's Selected Poems begins in the almost Victorian villages of remote Lincolnshire, where her father tramped, as a ploughboy, behind great Shires and Percherons. Her acclaimed early poem, Dreams of Power, gives voice to a little-known woman from the past, Arbella Stuart, and her still-contemporary choices: safe solitude, fashionable London, dangerous love. Her song-like poems draw on years of experience of bookkeeping and manual work in industry, of VAT, of trichloroethylene on `a thrumming lorry'. The poems take readers to northern China winters and the damp heat of Hanoi. And always the countryside returns: its mud, its huge hares, its stubborn sun. After nine books, major prizes and national broadcasts, the rush of Brackenbury's poems are a work in wonderful progress, full of surprises and renewals.

The Cartographer (Paperback): Mohan Rana The Cartographer (Paperback)
Mohan Rana; Translated by Lucy Rosenstein, Bernard O'Donoghue; Afterword by Alison Brackenbury
R171 Discovery Miles 1 710 Ships in 12 - 17 working days
Skies (Paperback): Alison Brackenbury Skies (Paperback)
Alison Brackenbury
R292 R264 Discovery Miles 2 640 Save R28 (10%) Ships in 12 - 17 working days

Skies is Alison Brackenbury's ninth Carcanet collection. In these poems, Brackenbury sustains delicate proximities between war and love, joy and sadness, summer and winter. Starting out as the first trees 'chatter into leaf', the poems cross through July's 'dripping amber' to January's 'false thaw'. The seasonal shift is reflected in the poet's larder, its variegating hues and tastes: honeycomb, parsnips, apples, broad beans, sprouts, jams and spices summon an air of harvest. But it is also the seasons of life that concern Brackenbury here: the poet's irrecoverable past, her youth 'which I can never visit, like a star', is at the same time the thing that never stops revisiting: in an unexpected letter from an old lover, in a half-remembered playground song. The poems in Skies are attuned to this musicality, to time's echoes and refrains, the old errors that still 'flower and flower'.Finally, it is the poet's quiet conviction to savour life, to take seriously its succulent variety, that defines this collection: the poems attest to the special privileges of age: wisdom, self-sufficiency, a deepening patience with the world; the ability to be, as the poet says of an apple, 'self-sweet'. The communal warmth of the kitchen finds its double in the exquisite loneliness of rising early, of hearing the barking of town foxes at dawn, or in the contemplation of a garden in autumn, its rows of hips swelled by rain, a rose 'whose name I think means happiness'.

The Best British Poetry 2012 (Paperback, New): Sasha Dugdale The Best British Poetry 2012 (Paperback, New)
Sasha Dugdale; Series edited by Roddy Lumsden; Contributions by Fleur Adcock, Patience Agbabi, Tara Bergin, … 1
R413 R365 Discovery Miles 3 650 Save R48 (12%) Ships in 10 - 15 working days

The Best British Poetry 2012 presents the finest and most engaging poems found in literary magazines and webzines over the past year. The material gathered represents the rich variety of current UK poetry. Each poem is accompanied by a note by the poet explaining the inspiration for the poem. An indispensable guide to British poetry and a must-have purchase for anyone interested in the art, from newcomers to the most experienced professional and all creative writing students working in English.

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