Brian Patten, Esq's Biography

Brian Patten, Esq's Professional Career

Career

poet and author; Freeman City of Liverpool 2001; hon fell Liverpool John Moores Univ 2002; Hon DLitt Univ of Liverpool 2006; FRSL 2003

Brian Patten, Esq's Publications

Books and Publications

poetry: Little Johnny's Confessions (1967), The Mersey Sound (with Adrian Henri and Roger McGough, 1967), Penguin Modern Poets (1967), Notes to the Hurrying Man (1969), The Irrelevant Song (1971), The Unreliable Nightingale (1973), Vanishing Trick (1976), The Shabby Angel (1978), Grave Gossip (1979), Love Poems (1981), Clares Countryside (1978), New Volume (1983), Storm Damage (1988), Grinning Jack (Selected Poems, 1990), Armada (1997), New Collected Love Poems (2007), Penguin Selected Poems (2007); novels: Mr Moon's Last Case (1975), The Story Giant (2001); plays: The Pig and the Junkle (1975), The Mouth Trap (with Roger McGough, 1982), Blind Love (1983), Gargling with Jelly - The Play! (1989); for younger readers: The Elephant and the Flower (1969), Jumping Mouse (1971), Emma's Doll (1976), The Sly Cormorant and the Fish (1977), Gangsters Ghosts and Dragonflies (ed, 1981), Gargling with Jelly (1985), Jimmy Tag-along (1988), Thawing Frozen Frogs (1990), The Puffin Book of Twentieth Century Children's Verse (ed, 1991), Grizzelda Frizzle (1992), The Magic Bicycle (1993), Impossible Parents (1994), The Utter Nutters (1994), The Puffin Book of Utterly Brilliant Verse (ed, 1998), Beowulf: a Retelling (1999), The Blue and Green Ark (1999), Little Hotchpotch (2000), Juggling with Gerbils (2000), Ben's Magic Telescope (2002), The Story Giant (2002), The Monsters' Guide to Choosing a Pet (with Roger McGough, 2004), Collected Love Poems (2007), Mersey Sound (2007), View from the Boathouse Window (2010), The Big Snuggle-up (2011)

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