Awen Publications

Jeremy Hooker grew up in Warsash near Southampton and at Pennington, on the edge of the New Forest, and the landscapes of this region have remained an important source of inspiration. Many of his poems were written in Wales, where he has lived for long periods. His academic career has taken him to universities in England, the Netherlands, and the USA. He is now Emeritus Professor of the University of South Wales. Besides his eleven collections of poetry represented in The Cut of the Light (Enitharmon, 2006), Jeremy is well known as a critic and has published selections of writings by Edward Thomas and Richard Jefferies, and studies of David Jones and John Cowper Powys, all of them important to his own creative life. Other critical titles include Writers in a Landscape (University of Wales Press, 1996) and Imagining Wales (University of Wales Press, 2001), while Welsh Journal (Seren, 2001) records his life in Wales during the 1970s, and Upstate (Shearsman, 2007) a period in upstate New York. His features for BBC Radio 3 include A Map of David Jones. Jeremy’s most recent books are Diary of a Stroke (Shearsman, 2016) and two new collections of poems, Scattered Light (Enitharmon, 2015) and Ancestral Light (Shearsman, 2016). He is a Fellow of the Welsh Academy and a Fellow of the Learned Society of Wales.

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Awen publications:

 

Ditch Vision: essays on poetry, nature, and place

Five poems in Soul of the Earth: the Awen anthology of eco-spiritual poetry

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Other publications:

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POETRY

 

The Elements

Soliloquies of a Chalk Giant

Landscape of the Daylight Moon

Solent Shore

Englishman's Road

A View from the Source: selected poems

Itchen Water (with Norman Ackroyd)

Their Silence a Language (with Lee Grandjean)

Master of the Leaping Figures

Groundwork (with Lee Grandjean)

Adamah

Our Lady of Europe

Arnolds Wood

The Cut of the Light: poems 1965–2005

Scattered Light

Ancestral Lines

 

PROSE

 

John Cowper Powys

David Jones: an exploratory study of the writings

John Cowper Powys and David Jones: a comparative study

Poetry of Place: essays and reviews 1970–1981

The Presence of the Past: essays on modern British and American poetry

Writers in a Landscape

Imagining Wales: a view of modern Welsh writing in English

Welsh Journal

Upstate: a North American journal

Openings: a European journal

Diary of a Stroke

 

EDITIONS

 

Selected Poems of Alun Lewis

Selected Stories by Frances Bellerby

Inwards Where All the Battle Is: a selection of Alun Lewis’s writings from India

At Home on the Earth: a new selection of the later writings of Richard Jefferies

The Ship of Swallows: a selection of short stories by Edward Thomas

Mapping Golgotha: letters & poems of Wilfred Owen