Welsh Journal - Softcover

Hooker, Jeremy

Softcover

ISBN 10: 1854113011 ISBN 13: 9781854113016

Publisher: Seren Books/Poetry Wales Pr Ltd, 2001

Synopsis

In Welsh Journal Jeremy Hooker recalls his life in the seventies when he was an English lecturer (in both senses) at the University of Wales in Aberystwyth. Delighting in his closeness to nature, life in a cottage in rural Llangwyryfon is delineated in delicate, poetic prose: the passing seasons, work in the garden, walking the mountains, the birth of his two children. Yet though stimulated by the new surroundings, Hooker found himself isolated, unable to enter fully into the Welsh-speaking community, at odds with his position as an academic, haunted too by a longing for his Dorset homeland. As a writer he must grapple with depression and a failure of poetic nerve. Consolation is found in the companionship of fellow poets and critics, in the hard-crafted completion of a sequence of poems, in the rain-borne scent of the newly-turned earth.

About this title

About the Author:

Jeremy Hooker is currently Professor Of English Literature at the University of Glamorgan, having held a number of university teaching posts across Wales, England and the US. He is the author of six volumes of poetry and two books of critical essays about contemporary writing.

About this edition

• Publisher: Seren Books/Poetry Wales Pr Ltd
• Publication date: 2001
• ISBN 10: 1854113011
• ISBN 13: 9781854113016
• Binding: Paperback
• Edition number: 1
• Number of pages: 252