02/10/2025, 10:35
The Liverpool poet Brian Patten has died at the age of 79. Born in Liverpool in 1946, Patten came to prominence with 1967's The Mersey Sound, which is thought to be one of the best-selling poetry anthologies of all time. Patten grew up in a working-class neighbourhood and left school at 15, finding work as a junior reporter on the Bootle Times, he was honoured with the Freedom of the City of Liverpool in 2001