Autor/-in: Alison Brackenbury

Alison Brackenbury. was born in 1953, from a long line of domestic servants and farm workers. She won a scholarship to Oxford, where she studied English Literature. In 1977 she moved to Gloucestershire, where she worked in a technical library, then, for twenty-three years, in her husband's tiny metal finishing company. Since her retirement in 2012, she has given readings at many festivals and other poetry events. Alison's work has won an Eric Gregory and a Cholmondeley Award. Gallop. , her Selected Poems, was published by Carcanet in 2019. Thorpeness. is her eleventh collection.