Ballads are memorable. This book was finished when the poet was fifty, with too
much to remember: the shadows of the wider world, the bulldozers tearing down a
Victorian school with its graceful green belltower and its nesting jackdaws
turned to a cry in the air.

"Her combination of music and mystery shines through. By updating the ballad
form to incorporate a more sophisticated lyric sensibility and introspective
voice, Brackenbury reinvigorates the tradition and makes it her own."
Jane Yeh, The Times Literary Supplement

If you would like to see a wider sample of my poems, please look at
www.myspace.com/alisonbrackenbury

For cat poems, with my cat Shadow resplendent in pictures, please see
www.myspace.com/shadowthepoetrycat

For my old handsome pony (in semi-animation) and her horse poems, please see
www.myspace.com/woodyshorsepoems