Brian Patten

Brian Patten ( born February 7, 1946 in Liverpool, Merseyside ) is a British poet and playwright.

Biography

After visiting the Sefton Park Secondary School, he began work as a reporter, but devoted himself already at that time the writing of poems. His first poems appeared in 1967, along with works by Roger McGough and Adrian Henri in the extraordinarily successful tenth volume of Penguin Modern Poets 10 under the title The Mersey Sound, where he was unlike McGough and Henri most closely associated with the early English poetry tradition.

Among his most important anthologies include Notes to the Hurrying Man ( 1969), Walking Out: The Early Poems of Brian Patten ( 1970), The Unreliable Nightingale (1973 ), Love Poems (1981 ), Storm Damage ( 1988) and Grinning Jack (1990 ).

In The Eminent Professor and the Nature of Poetry as Enacted Out Bey Members of the Poetry Seminar One Rainy Evening ( 1972) put Patten, whose poems were never academically sententious, his views and claims his literary vision dar.

In 1983 he published together with Henri and McGough a revised and expanded edition of her book, The Mersey Sound, but also collaborated with the illustrator, cartoonist and caricaturist Ralph Steadman. He also wrote next to plays and children 's literature as Gargling with Jelly (1985 ) and articles in newspapers such as "The idyllic town did time forgot " in The Independent (2005) on the inhabited mostly by Greeks village Kayakoy in Turkey.

Some of his works such as The Elephant and the Flower ( 1985), The Stolen Orange ( 1987) and Jumping Mouse (1987 ) translated by Uwe- Michael Gutzschhahn in the German language.

Swell

• Chambers Biographical Dictionary, pp. 1173 et seq, Edinburgh 2002, ISBN 0-550-10051-2

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