She has published ten full-length collections of poetry and two selected volumes, as well as reviews, articles, and radio broadcasts.
[3][4] In the late 1970s and the 1980s, Brackenbury worked as a librarian in a technical college and as a clerical assistant.
From 1990 to 2012, when she retired, she was a director, bookkeeper, and manual worker in her family's metal finishing firm.
[6] In 1982, it won an Eric Gregory Award, given for collections by poets under the age of thirty.
[1] Brackenbury's other published and broadcast work includes articles and reviews on poetry, the arts, and English and British folk song,[3][1][2] and a memoir of her grandmother, Aunt Margaret's Pudding, which includes recipes and poems.