List Of Writers

HOOKER, JEREMY

Jeremy Hooker was born in 1941 and is a poet, broadcaster, teacher and critic. Jeremy has taught in universities in Wales, England, the Netherlands and the USA and is a Reader in English Literature and  Professor of English Literature at the University of Glamorgan. In addition to publishing literary criticism, including Writers in a Landscape (1996) and monographs on David Jones and John Cowper Powys, he is the author of ten collections of poems and has published two journals: Welsh Journal (Seren, 2001) and Upstate: A North American Journal (Shearsman, 2007).

The Cut of the Light. Poems 1965–2005 (Enitharmon Press, 2006), was on the Wales Book of the Year 2007 Long List.

Reviews:

"…a poet of place, drawing deep from wells of history and geology and personal experience laid down over the earthy strata of places he has lived in and lived through, the layers enriching the reader’s pleasure…"
Gillian Clarke
 
With regards Our Lady of Europe (Enitharmon Press, 1997):
"…This is a poet who has done his groundwork, a poet at the height of his powers…"
Michael Symmons Roberts, TLS
 
With regards The Cut of the Light: Poems 1965–2005 (Enitharmon Press, 2006)
"…’Here the local and marginal, the almost un-noticed detail and half-forgotten event, repeatedly offer the most profound and memorable view of our shared condition..."
Wayne Burrows, Planet


Selected Publications:
The Elements (Christopher Davies, 1972)
John Cowper Powys (Writers of Wales Series) (University of Wales Press, 1973)
David Jones: An Exploratory Study of His Writings (Enitharmon Press, 1975)
Landscape of the Daylight Moon (Enitharmon Press, 1978)
Solent Shore (Carcanet, 1978)
Englishman’s Road (Carcanet, 1980)
Poetry of Place: Essays and Reviews, 1970-81 (Carcanet, 1982)
In Praise of Windmills (Circle Press, 1990)
The Presence of the Past: Essays on Modern British and American Poetry (Seren, 1995)
Our Lady of Europe (Enitharmon Press, 1997)
Inwards Where All  The Battle Is: Writings from India by Alun Lewis (Gregynog Press, 1997)
Master of the Leaping Figures (Enitharmon Press, 1997)
Groundwork (Djanogly Art Gallery, 1998)
Imagining Wales: A View of Modern Welsh Writing in English (University of Wales Press, 2001)
Welsh Journal (Seren, 2001)
Adamah (Enitharmon Press, 2002)
Arnolds Wood (Flarestack Publishing, 2005)
Edward Thomas, The Ship of Swallows (Enitharmon Press, 2005)
The Cut of the Light. Poems 1965-2005 (Enitharmon Press, 2006)
Upstate (Shearsman, 2007)

Contributed to:
At Home on the Earth: A New Selection of the Later Writings of Richard Jeffries (editor) (Green Books, 2001)
Mapping Golgotha: Wilfred Owen: letters and poems (editor) (Gregynog Press, 2007)