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21 produkter
Imagining Wales
A View of Modern Welsh Writing in English
Häftad, 2001
266 kr
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This volume deals with the 20th-century literature that is either Anglo-Welsh or that which relates to Wales. The argument of how writers "ground" themselves in their imagined Wales as a means of anchoring themselves against groundlessness in modern civilization, is also examined.
Look! We Have Come Through!
Av D. H. Lawrence, Jeremy Hooker
Häftad, 2011
190 kr
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Lawrence ...describes the poems [in this first collection of his unrhymed poems] as "intended as an essential story, or history, or confession", the critical experience occurring in the period of, "roughly, the sixth lustre of a man's life"-that is, from the age of 25 to 30. His Argument emphasizes …
Birds, Beasts and Flowers
Av D. H. Lawrence, Jeremy Hooker
Häftad, 2011
229 kr
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Birds, Beasts and Flowers (1923) was the volume that Lawrence himself described as his best collection of poetry. Composed in various locations during his exile-in Italy, France, Germany and the United States-this long collection occupies a crucial place in the development of his poetry and is that …
Openings: A European Journal
Häftad, 2014
242 kr
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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.
Ancestral Lines
Häftad, 2016
197 kr
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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 …
Diary of a Stroke
Häftad, 2016
235 kr
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Diary of a Stroke is a poet's journal with a difference. After suffering a stroke in July 1999, Jeremy Hooker kept a diary of his experience in hospital and of the subsequent period of recuperation at home, which ended with his return to work shortly after January 1, 2000. As in his other published …
Word and Stone
Häftad, 2019
197 kr
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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 …
Selected Poems 1965-2018
Häftad, 2020
262 kr
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This volume draws on over 50 years of poetry written by a poet who stands a little askew to the dominant modes in Britain: an Englishman in Wales, and an English poet with a decided admiration for the work of both George Oppen and David Jones, two very different Modernist exemplars, whose work …
Art of Seeing
Essays on Poetry, Landscape Painting, and Photography
Häftad, 2020
243 kr
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'Art of seeing', as Jeremy Hooker exercises it in these essays written over some thirty years, consists of acts of attention to a range of poets and visual artists. Aiming above all to be 'a careful, attentive, reader', Hooker seeks to illuminate subjects that have been neglected or undervalued …
Release
Häftad, 2022
229 kr
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Since Welsh Journal (2001), I have periodically adopted a form of writing that juxtaposes prose and poetry. The Release is a work of this kind, in which diary entries and poems are combined and interact. Roughly speaking, the diary records experience that generates the poems, or, to use another …
Addiction
A Love Story
Häftad, 2024
237 kr
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'Addiction' is the story of a double struggle. It is about the effort of Jeremy Hooker and his wife, Mieke, to combat the alcoholism that eventually contributed to her death. Based largely on the poet's journal, it contains poems written as acts of survival. The book concludes with a sequence of …
Preludes
Häftad, 2024
191 kr
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Preludes are primarily autobiographical poems written in old age. Their principal 'ground' is the south of England, and especially the area between the New Forest and the Solent, where Jeremy Hooker was brought up. They are, therefore, 'poems of place', and direct or oblique expressions of the …
With a Stranger's Eyes
Häftad, 2025
191 kr
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With a Stranger's Eyes is in two parts. The first, Dutch Girl is set mainly in the Netherlands, where Jeremy Hooker lived for four years with his wife, Mieke. The second, longer part records responses to history and landscapes primarily in South Wales where Hooker has lived since 2001. It also …
Presence and Place
Häftad, 2025
242 kr
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Jeremy Hooker's journal records his close friendship over more than 40 years with the sculptor and painter Lee Grandjean. They have collaborated together and made many excursions together, and shared times at Lee's Norfolk home. Their relationship continues to be a long conversation, in which each …
Cut of the Light
Poems 1965 - 2005
Inbunden, 2006
312 kr
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A collection of poems garnered from Jeremy Hooker's 40 years of material. It shows the development of poetry concerned with nature and history and the spirit of place; containing early, unpublished poems and some new versions of later work also.
Upstate
A North American Journal
Häftad, 2007
212 kr
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Upstate is the journal of poet and lecturer Jeremy Hooker's time spent in North America during the academic year 1994-5. Like his earlier 'Welsh Journal' (Seren, 2001), which covered his first sojourn in Wales in the 1970s, the book muses on his time as an Englishman in a foreign land - albeit a …
Scattered Light
Häftad, 2015
126 kr
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Jeremy Hooker's new collection shows him producing some of his finest work.
Writers in a Landscape
Inbunden, 1996
770 kr
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This work is centrally concerned with a group of writers - Thomas Hardy, Richard Jefferies, Edward Thomas and John Cowper Powys - and the ways in which they recreate actual places and landscapes imaginatively in their prose and poetry. The exploration of specific writings is set in the larger …
Writers in a Landscape
Häftad, 1996
278 kr
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This work is centrally concerned with a group of writers - Thomas Hardy, Richard Jefferies, Edward Thomas and John Cowper Powys - and the ways in which they recreate actual places and landscapes imaginatively in their prose and poetry. The exploration of specific writings is set in the larger …
Presence of the Past
Essays on Modern British and American Poetry
Häftad, 1995
178 kr
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This new collection of essays explores such urgent concerns in late twentieth century poetry as national and personal identity, and the relationship of history and the present. Jeremy Hooker takes a variety of poets and poems and sets them against each other to produce illuminating insights into …
