Gallop: Selected Poems by Alison Brackenbury Kwame Dawes and John Kinsella dextrous writing belies the raw

dextrous writing belies the raw truths she tells… I love Amy Key

namely their accuracy

giving us a rich sense not only of their formal aspects but also of the passions underlying their linguistic and structural invention

landscapes - with a mischievous delight in the detail of the absurd

almost a century after composition

Gallop: Selected Poems by Alison Brackenbury Kwame Dawes and John Kinsella dextrous writing belies the rawAlison Brackenbury's poems are haunted by horses, unseasonable love, history, hares and unreasonable hope. Brackenbury's Selected Poems begins in the almost Victorian villages of remote Lincolnshire, where her father tramped, as a ploughboy, behind great Shires and Percherons. Her acclaimed early poem, Dreams of Power, gives voice to a little known woman from the past, Arbella Stuart, and her still contemporary choices: safe solitude, fashionable