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Brian Patten (1946-) Biography
Born 1946 in Liverpool, England; Education: Attended secondary school in Sefton Park, Liverpool, England.
Addresses
Office—c/o UK Touring, The Croft, Old Church Rd., Worcester WR13 6EZ, England. Agent—c/o Puffin Books, 27 Wrights Lane, London W8 5TZ, England.
Career
Writer. Worked variously as a journalist, gardener, and newspaper vendor. University of California, San Diego, Regents Lecturer, 1985.
Member
Chelsea Arts Club.
Honors Awards
Eric Gregory Award for poetry, 1967; Pernod Poetry Award, 1967; British Arts Council grant, 1969; special award, Mystery Writers of America, 1977, for Mr. Moon's Last Case; Cholmondeley Award, Society of Authors, 2002.
Writings
POETRY
Portraits, privately printed, 1962.
(With Adrian Henri and Roger McGough) The Mersey Sound: Penguin Modern Poets 10, Penguin Books (Baltimore, MD), 1967, revised edition, 1983.
Little Johnny's Confession, Allen & Unwin (London, England), 1967,
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Brian Patten Biography
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(1946– ), Bootle Times, The Mersey Sound, Portraits, Maud, Little Johnny's Confession
Britishpoet, born in Liverpool, where he was educated at Sefton Park Secondary School and worked as a reporter on the Bootle Times. Prior to the enormous success of The Mersey Sound (1967), as a result of which Patten, McGough, and Henri became collectively well known as the Liverpool Poets, he had published Portraits (1962) and Maud (1965). His numerous subsequent volumes include Little Johnny's Confession (1967), Notes to the Hurrying Man (1969), Vanishing Trick (1976), Love Poems (1981), Storm Damage (1986) and The Magic Bicycle (1993); a selected edition of his work entitled Grinning Jack appeared in 1990. Much of Patten's work has an entertaining directness appropriate to his popularity as a performer of his poetry. He is widely regarded as the most interesting of the Liverpool Poets for the tonal range of his work, which extends
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Brian Patten
English poet (born 1946)
Brian Patten (born 7 February 1946) is an English poet and author.[1] He came to prominence in the 1960s as one of the Liverpool poets, and writes primarily lyrical poetry about human relationships. His famous works include "Little Johnny's Confessions", "The Irrelevant Song", "Vanishing Trick", "Emma's Doll", and "Impossible Parents".
Career
[edit]Patten was born in Bootle, Liverpool, England.[2] He attended Sefton Park School in the Smithdown Road area of Liverpool, where his early poetic writing was encouraged.[1] He left school at fifteen and began work for The Bootle Times writing a column on popular music. At age 18, he moved to Paris, where he lived rough for a time, earning money by writing poems in chalk on the pavements.[3]
Together with the other two Liverpool poets, Roger McGough and Adrian Henri, Patten published The Mersey Sound in 1967. One of the best-selling poetry anthol