Alan Brownjohn and the Desperado Age
Publisher: Editura Universitatii din Bucuresti
Published: 2003
Place of publication: Bucharest, Romania
Format: Paperback
Number of pages: 150
Table of contents: title: I. Poetry ........................................................................................................5; title: 1. Blank Despair of Words..............................................................................5; title: 2. Desperado E-Mailing Verse ......................................................................23; title: 3. The Millennium Poem ...............................................................................35; title: II. Fiction .......................................................................................................43; title: 1. The Blank Novelist: To Clear the River .....................................................43; title: 2. The Novel as Euro-Tunnel,; title: or The Way You Tell Them, The Truth and Nothing But ....................48; title: 3. The Long Shadows of Imagination and Fear ...............................................56; title: 4. A Funny Old Novel in A Funny Old Year ...................................................75; title: III. Literary Criticism ....................................................................................86; title: 1. The Thematic Critic ......................................................................................86; title: 2. The Desperado Critic ..................................................................................109; title: IV. Interviews .................................................................................................119; title: 1. ‘When they clearly understand what I am saying I am happy B; title: whether they like the poetry or not.’ .....................................................119; title: 2. ‘Literature is essential.’ .................................................................................125; title: 3. ‘I do not enjoy specialised academic criticism.’ ...........................................133; title: V. Alan Brownjohn and the Desperado age ..............................................143; title: VI. A short selection of Alan Brownjohn’s poems ........................................154; title: VII. Chronology ...............................................................................................164; title: VIII. Bibliography ............................................................................................169; title: Index ....................................................................................................................171