A Bottle and Other Poems - Softcover

Brownjohn, Alan

Softcover

ISBN 10: 191039212X ISBN 13: 9781910392126

Publisher: Enitharmon Press, 2016

About Alan Brownjohn's last individual volume of poems, Ludbrooke and Others, Sean O'Brien wrote in the Sunday Times, "If you don't find yourself laughing at and with Ludbrooke, the chances are that you're a Puritan or dead or both." Brownjohn's new book is one of his most varied and resourceful to date, featuring not only characteristically funny and entertaining poems and mysterious, gripping narratives (the title poem) but also moving tributes and elegies, love poems, and some absorbing social observation. It will confirm his reputation as "one of the most reliably enjoyable of writers."

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About the Author:

Poet Alan Brownjohn has been a regular broadcaster, reviewer and contributor to journals including the Times Literary Supplement, Encounter and the Sunday Times. His first collection of poetry, The Railings, was published in 1961. His books include Collected Poems 1952-1983, The Observation Car, The Way You Tell Them: A Yarn of the Nineties, The Long Shadows, A Funny Old Year, Windows on the Moon and Ludbrooke & Others.

Review:

"Brownjohn addresses feelings of isolation, boredom, disappointment and frustration, in a manner that is so very intelligible, his words seem to transpose themselves to the experiences of the individual reader." —Lamya Sadiq, dura-dundee.org.uk

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