Alan Brownjohn

Alan Charles Brownjohn (born 28 July 1931) is an English poet and novelist.

He was born in London and educated at Merton College, Oxford. He taught until 1979, when he became a full-time writer. He participated in Philip Hobsbaum's weekly poetry discussion meetings known as The Group.

Alan Brownjohn is a Distinguished Supporter of the British Humanist Association.

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Travellers Alone (1954) poems
The Railings (1961) poems
To Clear the River (1964) novel, as John Berrington
Penguin Modern Poets 14 (1965) with Michael Hamburger, Charles Tomlinson
The Lions' Mouths (1967)
A Day by Indirections (1969) broadsheet poem
First I Say This: A Selection of Poems for Reading Aloud (1969) editor
Sandgrains On A Tray (1969)
Woman Reading Aloud (1969) broadsheet poem
Synopsis (1970)
Brownjohn's Beasts (1970)
Transformation Scene (1971) broadside poem
An Equivalent (1971) poem
New Poems 1970 - 71. A P.E.N. Anthology of Contemporary Poetry (1971) edited with Seamus Heaney and Jon Stallworthy
Warrior's Career (1972)
She Made of It (1974)
A Song of Good Life (1975)
Philip Larkin (1975)
New Poetry 3, Arts Council anthology (1977) edited with Maureen Duffy
A Night in the Gazebo (1980)
Nineteen Poems (1980)
Collected Poems 1952 – 1983 (1983)
The Old Flea-Pit (1987)
The Observation Car (1990) poems
The Gregory Anthology 1987-1990 (1990) editor with K. W. Gransden
The Way You Tell Them: A Yarn of the Nineties (1990) novel
Inertia Reel (1992) broadside poem
In the Cruel Arcade (1994)
The Long Shadows (1997) novel
Horace by Pierre Corneille (1997) translator
The Cat without E-mail (Enitharmon Press 2001)
A Funny Old Year (2001) novel
The Men Around Her Bed (Enitharmon Press 2004)