Alan Brownjohn

Standard Name: Brownjohn, Alan

Connections

Connections Author name Excerpt
Literary responses Patricia Beer
Though Robert Lowell praised the poems in this volume, its reception marked a downturn in PB 's reception. Some established male poets—Alan Brownjohn , Al Alvarez —blamed her for being too crafted, too careful...
Literary responses U. A. Fanthorpe
Charles Causley called this volume the most accomplished first book of poems he had met with recently, a new and original voice . . . clear, distinctive, and remarkably assured.
qtd. in
Fanthorpe, U. A. Selected Poems. Peterloo Poets, 1986.
prelims
Peter Scupham in PN...
Literary responses Elaine Feinstein
Alan Brownjohn wrote of this collection (which centres around cities Feinstein has visited or which figure in her family's history) that the poems are mainly brief and simple, but they carry the authority of experience...
Literary responses Michelene Wandor
This book was a Poetry Book Society Recommendation. Alan Brownjohn called it MW 's best book to date, combining erudition and passion as poet, musician and scholar in a collection that . . . continually...
Literary responses E. J. Scovell
Alan Brownjohn , in a review for the Sunday Times, noted with a clear reminiscence of The Swan's Feet the tough talent at work under the surface calm.
qtd. in
Dowson, Jane, editor. Women’s Poetry of the 1930s: A Critical Anthology. Routledge, 1996.
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This too was a Poetry Book Society recommendation.
Dowson, Jane, editor. Women’s Poetry of the 1930s: A Critical Anthology. Routledge, 1996.
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Occupation Frances Horovitz
MacBeth was an influential BBC producer responsible for several regular poetry programmes. The Doomsday Show, not published until 1965, established him as a poet in his own right, and he went on to publish...

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Texts

Jennings, Elizabeth et al. “Letters to the Editor: Future of Radio”. Times, p. 11.
Duffy, Maureen, and Alan Brownjohn, editors. New Poetry 3. Arts Council of Great Britain, 1977.