Alan Brownjohn

Alan Brownjohn. Courtesy Enitharmon Press.

Alan Charles Brownjohn FRSL (born 28 July 1931) is an English poet and novelist.

Life

Brownjohn was born in London and educated at Merton College, Oxford. He taught until 1979, when he became a full-time writer. He participated in Philip Hobsbaum's weekly poetry discussion meetings known as The Group.

Brownjohn is a Distinguished Supporter of the British Humanist Association.

Publications

Poetry

• Travellers Alone. Liverpool, Heron Press, 1954.
• The Railings. London, Digby Press, 1961.
• The Lions' Mouths. London, Macmillan, 1966.
• Penguin Modern Poets 14 (by Alan Brownjohn, Michael Hamburger, & Charles Tomlinson), London, Penguin, 1969.
• Sandgrains on a Tray: Poems. Macmillan, 1969.
• Brownjohn's Beasts. London: Secker & Warburg, 1970.
• Warrior's Career. Macmillan, 1972.
• A Song of Good Life. London: Secker & Warburg, 1975.
• A Night in the Gazebo. London: Secker & Warburg, 1980.
• Collected Poems 1952-1983. London: Hutchinson, 1983; new ed. 1988
• The Old Flea-Pit. London: Hutchinson, 1987.
• The Observation Car.London: Hutchinson, 1990.
• In the Cruel Arcade. London, Sinclair-Stevenson, 1994.
• The Cat without E-mail. London: Enitharmon, 2001.
• The Men Around Her Bed. London: Enitharmon, 2004.
• Collected Poems. Enitharmon, 2006.
• Ludbrooke and Others. Enitharmon 2010

Novels

• To Clear the River (as "John Berrington"). London, Heinemann, 1964.
• The Way You Tell Them: A yarn of the nineties. London: André Deutsch, 1990.
• The Long Shadows. Dewi Lewis, 1997.
• A Funny Old Year. Dewi Lewis, 2001.
• Windows on the Moon. Black Spring Press, 2009.

Translated

• Goethe's Torquato Tasso (adaptation). London: Angel, 1985.
• Pierre Corneille's Horace. London: Angel, 1996

Edited

• First I Say This: A selection of poems for reading aloud. London, Hutchinson, 1969.
• New Poems 1970-71: A P.E.N. anthology of contemporary poetry (edited with Seamus Heaney and Jon Stallworthy. London: Hutchinson, 1971.
• New Poetry 3 (edited with Maureen Duffy). London, Arts Council of Great Britain, 1977.
• Meet and Write: A Teaching Anthology of Contemporary Poetry (edited with Sandy Brownjohn). London: Hodder & Stoughton, 1987.
• The Gregory Anthology 1987-1990 (edited with K.W. Gransden). London: Hutchinson, 1990.

Going to see the Rabbit

Except where noted, bibliographical information courtesy The Poetry Archive.

See also

• List of British poets

External links

Poems

• "2 poems from Alan Brownjohn: "All Best," "Snow in Bromley"

Audio / video

• Alan Brownjohn (b. 1931) at The Poetry Archive
• Alan Brownjohn at YouTube

Books

• Alan Brownjohn at Amazon.com

About

• Alan Brownjohn at Enitharmon Press
• Alan Brownjohn at the British Council
• Alan Brownjohn at British Humanist Association.
• Three interviews with Alan Brownjohn at Lidia Vianu