The poems in Alison Brackenbury's  "Thorpeness" range in their scope from hill forts in Gloucestershire and iconic images of Earth taken from space to Charles Dickens and a photograph of her dashing grandfather in his Great War uniform.  

As an interlude in this event, Alison will also be reading extracts from, and talking about, her forthcoming prose book, Village.  Although she is  generally associated with Lincolnshire (where she grew up) or Gloucestershire (where she has now lived for over 40 years), Alison also has deep links with Buckinghamshire.  Her mother’s mother, Amy Mary Wright, grew up just a few miles from Milton Keynes in the tiny village of Chicheley, and would say ‘I always remember’- before a flow of Chicheley stories.