With this, Brownjohn confirmed Peter Porter's claim that he was Britain's finest social poet since Larkin. Speaks wryly and with a controlled rebelliousness of the world and its rejections--Library Journal.
Alan Brownjohn's Selected Poems provides an excellent opportunity to renew acquaintance with the most notable work of a writer whose achievement has been central to the major concerns of modern English poetry. This selection reaffirms his reputation as one of the most thought-provoking - and entertaining - poets committed to interpreting the modern world. His take on subjects like love (and sex), time (and mortality), and our ecological and cu...
Alan Brownjohn writes about experiences from childhood on into the present, sometimes in precisely dated poems. He is perennially concerned with the impact of momentous events and changes on day-to-day life.
Brownjohn's new book, intriguingly titled A Bottle, 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.
A sixty-poem sequence brings a new departure in Alan Brownjohn's poetry. Ludbrooke' is a rueful, proud, somewhat devious figure who negotiates the hurdles and snares of an older man's life with - or so he likes to think - a combination of principle, aplomb, dexterity, and romantic flair.
