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Alan Charles Brownjohn FRSL is an English poet and novelist. He has also worked as a teacher, lecturer, critic and broadcaster. Wikipedia  

✵ 28. July 1931
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Famous Alan Brownjohn Quotes

“Following daily such a dread-
ful trade to earn a living,
With every second on that cliff
So cruel and unforgiving”

Alan Brownjohn

“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

The Cat Without E-Mail (2001).

“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

The Old Flea-Pit (1987).

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