Bücher von Jeremy Hooker

Aiming above all to be 'a careful, attentive, reader', Jeremy Hooker seeks in this volume to illuminate subjects that have been neglected or undervalued relative to mainstream fashions, such as the poetry of David Jones, George Oppen and Christopher Middleton, Welsh women poets, and neo-romantic painters such as Winifred Nicholson.

This volume draws on over 50 years of poetry written by a poet whose work stands a little askew to the dominant modes in Britain, and a poet with a decided admiration for the work of both George Oppen and David Jones. Jeremy Hooker is a poet with a powerful sense of place, whose joy in landscape and his surroundings shines through his body of work.

Word and Stone is questioning poetry, which explores the ground between language that seeks meaning, and the obduracy of matter, and between life and what seems dead. Its concern is with a sense of the sacred, and the possibility of renewing words such as 'spirit' and 'soul' in a materialist culture.

Ditch Vision is a book of essays on poetry, nature, and place that extends Jeremy Hooker's thinking on subjects that, as a distinguished critic and poet, he has made his life's work. The writers he considers include Edward Thomas, Robert Frost, Robinson Jeffers, Richard Jefferies, John Cowper Powys, Mary Butts, and Frances Bellerby. Through sensitive readings of these and other writers, he discusses differences between British and American writers concerned with nature and spirit of place. The book also includes essays in which he reflects upon the making of his own work as a lyric poet. Written throughout with a poet's feeling for language, Ditch Vision is the work of an exploratory writer who seeks to understand the writings he discusses in depth, and to illuminate them for other readers. Hooker explores the 'ground' of poetic vision with reference to its historical and mythological contexts, and in this connection Ditch Vision constitutes also a spiritual quest.

This is a poet's journal with a difference. After suffering a stroke in 1999, the author kept a diary of his experience in hospital and of the subsequent recuperation at home, which ended shortly after January 1, 2000. As in his other journals, he observed the life around him, with notations of the living moment giving rise to reflection.

Ancestral Lines is a sequence of poems about 'the river of desire' that flows through the lives of a family. In these poems Jeremy Hooker recalls his parents and grandparents, and an elusive great grandfather. He both honours the mystery of personal identity, and celebrates the oneness of life through the 'lines' of generations.

Openings is a sequel to Jeremy Hooker's earlier Welsh Journal and Upstate: A North American Journal, permitting us a peak over the shoulder of a fine English poet at work, and on the move.

A journal of poet and lecturer Jeremy Hooker's time spent in North America during the academic year 1994-95. It reflects on his time as an Englishman in a foreign land - albeit a land with which he feels deep ties, both personal and literary.