Brighton Burble
Formats: Paperback
Ages: 18+
An 80 page volume, printed on high quality card and paper, thread-bound, illustrated with drawings by Karen Grace; entirely designed, produced and published by the author. The book is a second, revised edition, published in 2016. It consists of a collection of poems observing and describing architecture, vistas, events, institutions and people of Brighton, by a writer with extensive family background in the town and surrounding area of Sussex. Composed in generally lucid and conventional language and phraseology, the forms range from classical scan and rhyme to free verse, and the tone varies from comical and ironical to complimentary and affectionate, in moods of contrasting temperamental character. The term 'burble' of the title was a originally a self-deprecatory flippant joke applied to the title of a slim pamphlet containing the earliest poems; the ISBN arrived together unexpectedly with nine more numbers, under the term chosen as imprint for the pamphlet, hence it remained also the publishing imprint for the subsequent books. In the years that followed, with the gradual establishment of ubiquitous and iconic expressions like google, twitter and so on seriously applied to eventual de facto global utilities, a word like burble has lost its initial naive and unintended capacity to baffle and repel.










