1829

In 1829 Alison Brackenbury's travels take her to three continents. The variously peopled landscapes of Asia, Africa and Europe are evoked with her lightness of touch, her granting rhythms and the grace of a subtle, distinctive prosody. The title poem was broadcast as part of the Mozart bicentenary celebrations on BBC Radio 3. Music always features in Brackenbury's poems; in this book she risks the dark of a minor key. The poems travel in time as well as space. And sometimes they also stay at home in a world of disorderly domesticity with cats and ponies.

March Pigeons	p. 9
Brockhampton	p. 10
Gulf	p. 11
Entrenched	p. 12
Tewkesbury	p. 13
The Postscript	p. 15
And the Legend	p. 16
On Wistley Hill	p. 17
Talk	p. 18
Unexpurgated	p. 19
The Queen's Funeral	p. 20
A Winter in Majorca	p. 21
A Chinese Wedding	p. 23
Manchuria	p. 24
Overnight	p. 25
Without	p. 26
Not a Nursery Rhyme	p. 27
The Wardrobe	p. 28
In Bulawayo	p. 29
Near Kariba	p. 30
Odysseus	p. 31
Phil and the Peacock	p. 32
Agenda	p. 33
Going Out	p. 34
Comb Honey	p. 35
Courting	p. 36
Outside the Circle	p. 37
At the Lion Gate	p. 38
Holst Thought	p. 39
Dawn Run	p. 40
The Welsh Cob Show	p. 41
Telling	p. 42
Dealing	p. 43
Asking	p. 44
Hay Fever	p. 45
After the X-Ray	p. 46
After the End	p. 47
Linum	p. 48
Diggers	p. 49
The Boy in Ross	p. 50
Needlehole	p. 51
The Players Come to the Castle	p. 52
Rearing	p. 53
Captain Lord	p. 54
Sub Aqua	p. 55
Your Father	p. 56
Hewlett Road	p. 57
The Spring at Chedworth	p. 58
In the Small Shop	p. 59
Katya	p. 60
'Now we go to the British cemetery'	p. 61
On the Northern Line	p. 62
1829	p. 63
Frost	p. 68
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