The Cut of the Light

by Hooker, Jeremy

• ISBN13: 9781904634270
• ISBN10: 1904634273
• Format: Hardcover
• Copyright: 2006-05-01
• Publisher: Enitharmon Press

Summary

This collection of poetry, written over forty years, shows the development of a poet concerned with nature and history.

Author Biography

Jeremy Hooker was born in 1941 and is a poet, critic, teacher and broadcaster. His ten collections of poetry are represented by a substantial selection: The Cut of the Light: Poems 1965-2005 (Enitharmon, 2006). His other books include Writers in a Landscape, Imagining Wales: A View of Modern Welsh Writing in English, studies of David Jones and John Cowper Powys, Welsh Journal and Upstate: A North American Journal. He has edited writings by Alun Lewis, Frances Bellerby, Richard Jefferies, Wilfred Owen, and Edward Thomas. His features for BBC Radio 3 include A Map of David Jones and the poem for voices, Landscape of Childhood. Jeremy Hooker has taught in universities, in Wales, England, The Netherlands and the USA. He retired, as Professor of English, at the University of Glamorgan, in 2008.