Selected Poems

A selection of Brian Patten's best work over the last forty-five years, chosen by the poet himself. The earliest of these poems, 'Sleep Now', was written when Patten was fifteen, the latest when he was sixty. Presented in rough chronological order, the selection includes a dozen new poems.

Brian Patten was born in Liverpool in 1946. His work first appeared in the bestselling Penguin collection The Mersey Sound in 1967, since when he has published many books for adults and children, and won the Cholmondeley Award for Poetry. He lives in Devon.