Alan Brownjohn, Esq

Career: formerly sch teacher and lectr in English; freelance author and poet 1979-; chm Poetry Soc 1982-88; poetry critic: New Statesman 1968-76, Encounter 1977-80, Sunday Times 1990-; reg contrib to TLS and BBC Radio poetry progs; memb Cncl of Mgmnt Arvon Fndn 1973-2002; memb: Writers' Guild of GB, Soc of Authors; Cholmondeley Award for Poetry 1979, Soc of Authors travelling scholarship 1985, Special Award Books Ctee Writers' Guild of GB 2007; FRSL

Books and Publications: Torquato Tasso (trans, 1985), The Way You Tell Them (1990, Authors' Club prize), Horace (trans, 1996), The Long Shadows (published in Romanian, 1996, Br edn 1997), A Funny Old Year (2001); poetry: Collected Poems (1988, new edn 2006), The Observation Car (1990), In the Cruel Arcade (1994), The Cat without E-Mail (2001), The Men Around Her Bed (2004), Ludbrooke and Others (2010), The Saner Places: Selected Poems (2011); anthologies: First I Say This (ed), New Poems 1970-71 (ed with Seamus Heaney and Jon Stallworthy), New Poetry 3 (ed with Maureen Duffy), Windows on the Moon (novel, 2009)