| He has written extensively on folk music for a large number of papers and journals, including many overseas publications. He created the club Newsletter Fo'c'sle News and was Editor of Folk on Tap for seven years.
His book The Folk Songs of Old Hampshire was the first comprehensive study of local songs and has been widely praised. He has written three further books and contributed to over 30 books by other authors, covering subjects as diverse as cartography, art, music and Hollywood cowboys!
In 1963 he met Sven Berlin and began the correspondence that was to last for the next 25-plus years, and a deep bond of friendship was established between the two and Sven's wife, Julia.
Over the 750 letters they exchanged, Berlin sent Browne all the new poems he wrote during those years.
In 1965 and 1969 JPB recorded Sven reading some of the poems from those letters, and those recordings now form the nucleus of this unique audio CD.
The Berlin letters have recently been edited by JPB and will shortly be published as Letters to a Friend.
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