Alison Brackenbury (born 1953
Gainsborough, Lincolnshire
Gainsborough is a market town, inland port and civil parish in the West Lindsey district of Lincolnshire, England. The town population was 20,842 at the 2011 census, and estimated at 23,243 in 2019. It lies on the east bank of the River Trent ...
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Retrieved 2018-02-14.) is a British poet.
Life
After studying English at
St Hugh's College, Oxford
St Hugh's College is one of the constituent colleges of the University of Oxford. It is located on a site on St Margaret's Road, to the north of the city centre. It was founded in 1886 by Elizabeth Wordsworth as a women's college, and acce ...
[ she now lives in ]Gloucestershire
Gloucestershire ( abbreviated Glos) is a county in South West England. The county comprises part of the Cotswold Hills, part of the flat fertile valley of the River Severn and the entire Forest of Dean.
The county town is the city of ...
. Her work has appeared in the ''Kenyon Review'', ''Ploughshares'' and ''Stand''.
Awards
* Eric Gregory Award
* Poetry Book Society Recommendation.
* 1997 Cholmondeley Award
The Cholmondeley Awards () are annual awards for poetry given by the Society of Authors in the United Kingdom. Awards honour distinguished poets, from a fund endowed by the Dowager Marchioness of Cholmondeley in 1966. Since 1991 the award has be ...
Works
"In the gap"; "Affairs"; "Plucked from", ''The Chimera'', October 2007
"When"; "Mud"; "March ending"; "Passing", ''nthposition'', March 2008
"6.25", ''The Guardian'', 2 February 2008
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References
External links
"Author's website"
Alison Brackenbury reads poems on PoetCasting
Living people
1953 births
People from Gainsborough, Lincolnshire
Alumni of St Hugh's College, Oxford
English women poets
People from Gloucestershire
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