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Is fine - as long as no one comes
And asks us what we do there...
We'd have to say, Without our toil,
Just who would know it grew there?

Alan Brownjohn

At dawn, a railwaywoman
On a country platform whirls on the end of a chain
An irrelevant key, while a young guard makes to wipe
A crumb from her lapel; and see, she smiles
A permissory smile you take in from your corner seat:
A cameo of unrehearsed perfection.

Alan Brownjohn

Alan Brownjohn

Alan Brownjohn

Born: July 28, 1931

Died: February 23, 2024 (aged 92)

Bio: Alan Charles Brownjohn was an English poet and novelist. He also worked as a teacher, lecturer, critic and broadcaster.

Known for:

The long shadows (1997)
The cat without e-mail (2001)
Ludbrooke and Others (2010)
Collected Poems, 1952-2006 (1983)
Windows on the Moon (2009)

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