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Brian Patten was born in Liverpool. His poetry for adults has been translated into many languages, and his collections include Love Poems, Storm Damage, Grinning Jack and Armada. His verse for children includes Gargling with Jelly, Thawing Frozen Frogs and The Utter Nutters. Brian Patten is a popular performer of his work, and he has also written children's plays as well as editing The Puffin Book of 20th Century Children's Verse.
Brian Patten (born 7 February 1946) is an English poet and author. He came to prominence in the 1960s as one of the Liverpool poets and writes primarily lyrical poetry about human relationships. Patten's first published volumes of poems were Little Johnny's Confession (1967) and Notes to the Hurrying Man (1969). The later collections Storm Damage (1988) and Armada (1996) are more varied, the latter featuring a sequence of poems concerning the death of his mother and memories of his childhood. Armada is perhaps Patten's most mature and formal book, dispensing with much of the playfulness of former work. He has also written a comic verse for children, notably Gargling With Jelly and Thawing Frozen Frogs.