Alan Brownjohn

Alan Charles Brownjohn (born 28 July 1931) is a British poet and novelist.

He 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.

Works

• Travellers Alone (1954) poems
• The Railings (1961) poems
• To Clear the River (1964) novel, as John Berrington
• Penguin Modern Poets 14 (1965) with Michael Hamburger, Charles Tomlinson
• The Lions' Mouths (1967)
• A Day by Indirections (1969) broadsheet poem
• First I Say This: A Selection of Poems for Reading Aloud (1969) editor
• Sandgrains On A Tray (1969)
• Woman Reading Aloud (1969) broadsheet poem
• Synopsis (1970)
• Brownjohn's Beasts (1970)
• Transformation Scene (1971) broadside poem
• An Equivalent (1971) poem
• New Poems 1970 - 71. A P.E.N. Anthology of Contemporary Poetry (1971) edited with Seamus Heaney and John Stallworthy
• Warrior's Career (1972)
• She Made of It (1974)
• A Song of Good Life (1975)
• Philip Larkin (1975)
• New Poetry 3, Arts Council antholigy (1977) edited with Maureen Duffy
• A Night in the Gazebo (1980)
• Nineteen Poems (1980)
• Collected Poems 1952 – 1983 (1983)
• The Old Flea-Pit (1987)
• The Observation Car (1990) poems
• The Gregory Anthology 1987-1990 (1990) editor with K. W. Gransden
• The Way You Tell Them: A Yarn of the Nineties (1990) novel
• Inertia Reel (1992) broadside poem
• In the Cruel Arcade (1994)
• The Long Shadows (1997) novel
• Horace by Pierre Corneille (1997) translator
• The Cat without E-mail (Enitharmon Press 2001)
• A Funny Old Year (2001) novel
• The Men Around Her Bed (Enitharmon Press 2004))

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