Jeremy Hooker

was born in 1941 and is a poet, critic, teacher and broadcaster. His ten collections of poetry are represented by a substantial selection: The Cut of the Light: Poems 1965-2005 (Enitharmon, 2006). His other books include Writers in a Landscape, Imagining Wales: A View of Modern Welsh Writing in English, studies of David Jones and John Cowper Powys, Welsh Journal and Upstate: A North American Journal. He has edited writings by Alun Lewis, Frances Bellerby, Richard Jefferies, Wilfred Owen, and Edward Thomas. His features for BBC Radio 3 include A Map of David Jones and the poem for voices, Landscape of Childhood. Jeremy Hooker has taught in universities, in Wales, England, The Netherlands and the USA. He retired, as Professor of English at the University of Glamorgan, in 2008.

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Jeremy Hooker

The Cut of the Light: Poems 1965-2005

"The Cut of the Light" draws extensively on Jeremy Hooker's poetry written over a period of forty years. It shows the development of a poetry concerned with nature and history and the spirit of place, and comprises both formal variety and the 'art of seeing' which relates Hooker to a vital tradition of British and American poetry. The book contains early, previously unpublished poems and some new versions of later work. It represents the best of a consistently exploratory poet whose work is celebrated for its power and delicacy. A sumptuous hardback, this book is an excellent gift for a poetry lover.

£25.00

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Jeremy Hooker

Scattered Light

Here, scattered light falls across landscapes and memories. These new poems are among Jeremy Hooker’s finest. They extend his thinking about powerful crosscurrents that constitute the ‘sacred’, and deepen his exploration of history embodied in landscape. This collection contains a variety of short, ‘light’ poems, longer poems, and sequences such as 'Saltgrass Lane' and 'Hurst Castle' that dig deeper into his childhood terrain on the Hampshire coastline.

£9.99