Brian Patten

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

biography

After attending Sefton Park Secondary School , he began working as a reporter , but was already devoting himself to poetry at this time . His first poems appeared in 1967 together 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 , whereby, unlike McGough and Henri, he was most closely connected to the early English poetry tradition.

His most significant 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 Professors and the Nature of Poetry as Enacted Out Bey Members of the Poetry Seminar One Rainy Evening (1972), Patten, whose poems were never academically sententious , presented his views and claims of his literary point of view.

In 1983 he published a revised and expanded new edition of their book The Mersey Sound with Henri and McGough , but also worked with the illustrator , cartoonist and caricaturist Ralph Steadman . In addition to plays and children's and youth literature such as Gargling with Jelly (1985), he also wrote articles in daily newspapers such as “The idyllic town that time forgot” in The Independent (2005) about the Greek- majority village of Kayaköy in Turkey .

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

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