Research Catalog
Thorpeness
- Title
- Thorpeness / Alison Brackenbury.
- Author
- Brackenbury, Alison
- Publication
- Manchester : Carcanet Poetry, 2022.
- ©2022
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| Status | Format | Access | Call Number | Item Location |
|---|---|---|---|---|
Available - Can be used on site. Please visit New York Public Library - Schwarzman Building to submit a request in person. | Text | Use in library | JFD 22-1395 | Schwarzman Building - Main Reading Room 315 |
Details
- Description
- 98 pages; 22 cm
- Summary
- "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." -- Back cover.
- Subject
- Genre/Form
- Poetry.
- Nature poetry.
- Bibliography (note)
- Includes bibliographical references.
- Call Number
- JFD 22-1395
- ISBN
- 1800172257
- 9781800172258
- OCLC
- 1255214743
- Author
- Brackenbury, Alison, author.
- Title
- Thorpeness / Alison Brackenbury.
- Publisher
- Manchester : Carcanet Poetry, 2022.
- Copyright Date
- ©2022
- Type of Content
- text
- Type of Medium
- unmediated
- Type of Carrier
- volume
- Bibliography
- Includes bibliographical references.
- Chronological Term
- 2000-2099
- Research Call Number
- JFD 22-1395