Brighton Burble

An 80-page volume, 18 x 11cm, printed on high quality card and paper, thread-

bound, illustrated with drawings by Dominic Sladden; designed, produced (apart

from printing and binding) and published by the author. The book is a second,

revised edition, published in 2016.

The book 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 Sussex area.

Composed in 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 jubilant and affectionate, in moods of contrasting temperamental

character.

The term ‘burble’ of the title was 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, all 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 zany expressions like google, twitter and so on, becoming seriously applied to eventual defacto global utilities, a word like burble has lost its initial naïve and unintended capacity to baffle and repel.