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Jeremy Hooker

January 01, 1970

Jeremy Hooker FRSL FLSW (born 1941 in Warsash, Hampshire) is an English poet, critic, teacher, and broadcaster.[1] Central to his work are a concern with the relationship between personal identity and place.

Hooker taught at the University of Wales, Aberystwyth, the University of Groningen in the Netherlands, Bath College of Higher Education, Le Moyne College, New York State, and University of Glamorgan, from which he retired in 2008.

Biography edit

Hooker grew up on the edge of the New Forest village of Pennington, about two miles north of Lymington.[2] After studying at the University of Southampton, Hooker lectured at the University of Wales, Aberystwyth.[3] First living in Aberystwyth, but then in 1969 moving to the nearby Welsh-speaking parish of Llangwyryfon. Hooker left Llangwyrfron around 1980, when he spent two years as a creative writing fellow at Winchester School of Art.[4]

In 1984 he left the University of Wales, Aberystwyth. Subsequently, he lived for a while in the Netherlands, teaching at the University of Groningen, before moving to Frome in 1989 and teaching creative writing at the Bath College of Higher Education. This later became Bath Spa University and he was the first director of its MA in Creative Writing. Jeremy Hooker spent the academic year 1994/5 teaching at Le Moyne College in upstate New York.[5] More recently he was a professor at the University of Glamorgan, from where he retired in 2008, becoming Emeritus Professor of the University.[6]

Hooker remains active, and has continued to publish poetry and prose, including contributions to various periodicals, since retiring.

In 2013, Hooker was elected a Fellow of the Learned Society of Wales.[7]

Works edit

A concern with place and landscape, in relation to personal identity, is central to both Hooker's poetry and to his critical writing, as is "the relation between poetry and the sacred".[8]

He has published eleven full length collections of poetry (including selected and collected works), critical studies of John Cowper Powys and David Jones, as well as collections of literary essays. He has also edited works by Richard Jefferies, Edward Thomas, Frances Bellerby, Wilfred Owen. In addition Hooker has been involved with works for radio, including "A Map of David Jones".[9]

When asked, in an interview, about influences Hooker listed Richard Jeffries, Thomas Hardy, Edward Thomas and later David Jones, along with the American Objectivist poets William Carlos Williams and George Oppen.[10] Hooker began reading Jefferies when he was twelve.[11] Another important early influence was the fact that Hooker's father was a landscape painter, who had a great love of Constable.[12]

The move to Wales in 1965 was important for Hooker's development both as poet and as critic,[13] and during the 1970s he established himself as an important critic of Welsh writing in English and was involved with teaching a course in this literature, which had been created by Ned Thomas at Aberytwyth.[14]

But the tension of being a "foreigner" in Wales led Hooker selling the house in Llangwyryfon, in 1980: "I owe no place more than Llangwyryfon, but it has taken eleven years of living there, in an agricultural and predominantly Welsh-speaking community, for us to realise that our particular kind of dislocation can't be mended by settling permanently where other people belong".[15] While living there he published three books of poetry that deal with his earlier experience of life in Southern England: Soliloquies of a Chalk Giant (1974) (winner in 1974 of the Welsh Arts Council Literature Prize), Landscape of the Daylight Moon (1978), Solent Shore (1978), and a fourth collection that focussed more on his experience of living in Wales: Englishman's Road (1980).

Bibliography edit

Poems edit

  • Poetry Introduction, number 1. With John Cotton; John Daniel; Douglas Dunn; Elaine Feinstein; Ian Hamilton; David Harsent; V.C Horwell; Bartholomew Quinn. London: Faber & Faber, 1969.
  • The Elements (Triskel Poets) (pamphlet). Davies 1972.
  • Soliloquies of a Chalk Giant. London: Enitharmon, 1974.
  • Landscape of the Daylight Moon. London: Enitharmon, 1978.
  • Solent Shore. Manchester: Carcanet, 1978.
  • Englishman's Road. Manchester: Carcanet, 1980.
  • A view from the Source: Selected Poems. Manchester: Carcanet, 1982.
  • Itchen Water. (pamphlet) Winchester: Winchester School of Art Press, 1982.
  • Their Silence a Language (with the artist Lee Grandjean). Ipswich: Ipswich Borough Council, 1990.
  • Master of the Leaping Figures. Petersfield, Hampshire: Enitharmon, 1987.
  • Groundwork with Lee Grandjean (Illustrator) Nottingham: Djanogly Art Gallery, 1998.
  • Adamah. London: Enitharmon, 2002
  • Our Lady of Europe. London: Enitharmon, 1997.
  • Arnolds Wood. Birmingham: Flarestack, 2005
  • The Cut of the Light. Poems 1965–2005. London: Enitharmon, 2006.
  • Scattered Light. London: Enitharmon, 2015

Literary studies and essays edit

  • John Cowper Powys. Cardiff: University of Wales Press (for the Welsh Arts Council) 1973.
  • David Jones : An Exploratory Study of the Writings. London: Enitharmon, 1975.
  • John Cowper Powys and David Jones: A Comparative Study. London: Enitharmon, 1979.
  • Poetry of Place : Essays and Reviews 1970–1981. London: Carcanet, 1982.
  • The presence of the past : Essays on Modern British and American Poetry. Bridgend, Wales: Poetry Wales Press, c1987.
  • Imagining Wales : A View of Modern Welsh Writing in English. Cardiff: University of Wales Press, 2001.
  • Welsh Journal. Bridgend, Wales: Seren, 2001.
  • Upstate: A North American Journal. Exeter, Devon: Shearsman Books, 2007.
  • Openings: A European Journal. Exeter, Devon: Shearsman Books, 2014
  • Ditch Vision: Essays on Poetry, Nature, and Place. Stroud: Awen, 2017.

Works edited by edit

  • Alun Lewis, Selected Poems. Selected by Jeremy Hooker and Gweno Lewis; foreword by Robert Graves; afterword by Jeremy Hooker. London: Unwin, 1981.
  • Frances Bellerby, Selected Stories. Edited and introduced by Jeremy Hooker, London: Enitharmon 1997.
  • Alun Lewis Inwards Where All the Battle is: A Selection of Alun Lewis's Writings from India. Jeremy Hooker, ed., David Gentleman, Illustrations. Newtown: Gwasg Gregynog, 1997.
  • Jefferies, Richard, At Home on the Earth: A New Selection of the Later Writings of Richard Jeffries. Selected and introduced by Jeremy Hooker ; with illustrations by Agnes Miller Parker. Totnes, Devon: Green Books, 2001.
  • Edward Thomas, The Ship of Swallows : A Selection of Short Stories, edited and introduced by Jeremy Hooker; Preface by Myfanwy Thomas. London: Enitharmon, 2005.
  • Richard Jefferies. The Story of My Heart: My Autobiography. Introduction by Jeremy Hooker.
  • Wilfred Owen, Mapping Golgotha : Letters & Poems. Selected, edited, and with an introduction by Jeremy Hooker; illustrated by Harry Brockway. Newtown, Powys: Gwasg Gregynog, 2007.

Essays in collections edit

  • The Experience of Landscape, Paintings, Drawings and Photographs from The Arts council Collection (exhibition catalogue) London: South Bank Centre, 1987.
  • Art of Edward Thomas. Jonathan Barker, ed.. Wales: Poetry Wales Press, 1987.
  • Poetry in the British Isles: Non-Metropolitan Perspectives edited by Hans Werner Ludwig and Lothar Fietz. Cardiff: University of Wales Press, 1995.
  • Word Play Place : Essays on the Poetry of John Matthias, ed. Robert Thomas Archambeau. Athens, USA: Swallow Press, 1998.

Miscellaneous edit

  • David T. Lloyd. "Interview", Writing on the Edge: Interviews with Writers and Editors of Wales. Amersterdam and Atlanta: Rodopi, 1997.
  • Christopher Meredith, ed. Moment of Earth: Poems and Essays in Honour of Jeremy Hooker. Aberystwyth: Celtic Studies, 2007.

References edit

  1. ^ poetry archive.org.
  2. ^ Writers in a Landscape, xi.
  3. ^ Imagining Wales, 188, 190.
  4. ^ See Welsh Journal
  5. ^ See Upstate: A North American Journal.
  6. ^ Enitharmon Editions.
  7. ^ Wales, The Learned Society of. "Jeremy Hooker". The Learned Society of Wales. Retrieved 30 August 2023.
  8. ^ Foundation, Poetry (27 April 2023). "Poetry Foundation". Poetry Foundation.
  9. ^ Acknowledgements to "Our Lady in Europe".
  10. ^ Brittle Star Magazine.
  11. ^ The Poetry of Place, 170.
  12. ^ Writers in a Landscape, vii.
  13. ^ See "Introduction" to Imagining Wales.
  14. ^ Imagining Wales, 4.
  15. ^ Afterword to A View from the Source.

External links edit

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January 01, 1970
jeremy, hooker, frsl, flsw, born, 1941, warsash, hampshire, english, poet, critic, teacher, broadcaster, central, work, concern, with, relationship, between, personal, identity, place, hooker, taught, university, wales, aberystwyth, university, groningen, neth. Jeremy Hooker FRSL FLSW born 1941 in Warsash Hampshire is an English poet critic teacher and broadcaster 1 Central to his work are a concern with the relationship between personal identity and place Hooker taught at the University of Wales Aberystwyth the University of Groningen in the Netherlands Bath College of Higher Education Le Moyne College New York State and University of Glamorgan from which he retired in 2008 Contents 1 Biography 1 1 Works 2 Bibliography 2 1 Poems 2 2 Literary studies and essays 2 3 Works edited by 2 4 Essays in collections 2 5 Miscellaneous 3 References 4 External linksBiography editHooker grew up on the edge of the New Forest village of Pennington about two miles north of Lymington 2 After studying at the University of Southampton Hooker lectured at the University of Wales Aberystwyth 3 First living in Aberystwyth but then in 1969 moving to the nearby Welsh speaking parish of Llangwyryfon Hooker left Llangwyrfron around 1980 when he spent two years as a creative writing fellow at Winchester School of Art 4 In 1984 he left the University of Wales Aberystwyth Subsequently he lived for a while in the Netherlands teaching at the University of Groningen before moving to Frome in 1989 and teaching creative writing at the Bath College of Higher Education This later became Bath Spa University and he was the first director of its MA in Creative Writing Jeremy Hooker spent the academic year 1994 5 teaching at Le Moyne College in upstate New York 5 More recently he was a professor at the University of Glamorgan from where he retired in 2008 becoming Emeritus Professor of the University 6 Hooker remains active and has continued to publish poetry and prose including contributions to various periodicals since retiring In 2013 Hooker was elected a Fellow of the Learned Society of Wales 7 Works edit A concern with place and landscape in relation to personal identity is central to both Hooker s poetry and to his critical writing as is the relation between poetry and the sacred 8 He has published eleven full length collections of poetry including selected and collected works critical studies of John Cowper Powys and David Jones as well as collections of literary essays He has also edited works by Richard Jefferies Edward Thomas Frances Bellerby Wilfred Owen In addition Hooker has been involved with works for radio including A Map of David Jones 9 When asked in an interview about influences Hooker listed Richard Jeffries Thomas Hardy Edward Thomas and later David Jones along with the American Objectivist poets William Carlos Williams and George Oppen 10 Hooker began reading Jefferies when he was twelve 11 Another important early influence was the fact that Hooker s father was a landscape painter who had a great love of Constable 12 The move to Wales in 1965 was important for Hooker s development both as poet and as critic 13 and during the 1970s he established himself as an important critic of Welsh writing in English and was involved with teaching a course in this literature which had been created by Ned Thomas at Aberytwyth 14 But the tension of being a foreigner in Wales led Hooker selling the house in Llangwyryfon in 1980 I owe no place more than Llangwyryfon but it has taken eleven years of living there in an agricultural and predominantly Welsh speaking community for us to realise that our particular kind of dislocation can t be mended by settling permanently where other people belong 15 While living there he published three books of poetry that deal with his earlier experience of life in Southern England Soliloquies of a Chalk Giant 1974 winner in 1974 of the Welsh Arts Council Literature Prize Landscape of the Daylight Moon 1978 Solent Shore 1978 and a fourth collection that focussed more on his experience of living in Wales Englishman s Road 1980 Bibliography editPoems edit Poetry Introduction number 1 With John Cotton John Daniel Douglas Dunn Elaine Feinstein Ian Hamilton David Harsent V C Horwell Bartholomew Quinn London Faber amp Faber 1969 The Elements Triskel Poets pamphlet Davies 1972 Soliloquies of a Chalk Giant London Enitharmon 1974 Landscape of the Daylight Moon London Enitharmon 1978 Solent Shore Manchester Carcanet 1978 Englishman s Road Manchester Carcanet 1980 A view from the Source Selected Poems Manchester Carcanet 1982 Itchen Water pamphlet Winchester Winchester School of Art Press 1982 Their Silence a Language with the artist Lee Grandjean Ipswich Ipswich Borough Council 1990 Master of the Leaping Figures Petersfield Hampshire Enitharmon 1987 Groundwork with Lee Grandjean Illustrator Nottingham Djanogly Art Gallery 1998 Adamah London Enitharmon 2002 Our Lady of Europe London Enitharmon 1997 Arnolds Wood Birmingham Flarestack 2005 The Cut of the Light Poems 1965 2005 London Enitharmon 2006 Scattered Light London Enitharmon 2015 Literary studies and essays edit John Cowper Powys Cardiff University of Wales Press for the Welsh Arts Council 1973 David Jones An Exploratory Study of the Writings London Enitharmon 1975 John Cowper Powys and David Jones A Comparative Study London Enitharmon 1979 Poetry of Place Essays and Reviews 1970 1981 London Carcanet 1982 The presence of the past Essays on Modern British and American Poetry Bridgend Wales Poetry Wales Press c1987 Imagining Wales A View of Modern Welsh Writing in English Cardiff University of Wales Press 2001 Welsh Journal Bridgend Wales Seren 2001 Upstate A North American Journal Exeter Devon Shearsman Books 2007 Openings A European Journal Exeter Devon Shearsman Books 2014 Ditch Vision Essays on Poetry Nature and Place Stroud Awen 2017 Works edited by edit Alun Lewis Selected Poems Selected by Jeremy Hooker and Gweno Lewis foreword by Robert Graves afterword by Jeremy Hooker London Unwin 1981 Frances Bellerby Selected Stories Edited and introduced by Jeremy Hooker London Enitharmon 1997 Alun Lewis Inwards Where All the Battle is A Selection of Alun Lewis s Writings from India Jeremy Hooker ed David Gentleman Illustrations Newtown Gwasg Gregynog 1997 Jefferies Richard At Home on the Earth A New Selection of the Later Writings of Richard Jeffries Selected and introduced by Jeremy Hooker with illustrations by Agnes Miller Parker Totnes Devon Green Books 2001 Edward Thomas The Ship of Swallows A Selection of Short Stories edited and introduced by Jeremy Hooker Preface by Myfanwy Thomas London Enitharmon 2005 Richard Jefferies The Story of My Heart My Autobiography Introduction by Jeremy Hooker Wilfred Owen Mapping Golgotha Letters amp Poems Selected edited and with an introduction by Jeremy Hooker illustrated by Harry Brockway Newtown Powys Gwasg Gregynog 2007 Essays in collections edit The Experience of Landscape Paintings Drawings and Photographs from The Arts council Collection exhibition catalogue London South Bank Centre 1987 Art of Edward Thomas Jonathan Barker ed Wales Poetry Wales Press 1987 Poetry in the British Isles Non Metropolitan Perspectives edited by Hans Werner Ludwig and Lothar Fietz Cardiff University of Wales Press 1995 Word Play Place Essays on the Poetry of John Matthias ed Robert Thomas Archambeau Athens USA Swallow Press 1998 Miscellaneous edit David T Lloyd Interview Writing on the Edge Interviews with Writers and Editors of Wales Amersterdam and Atlanta Rodopi 1997 Christopher Meredith ed Moment of Earth Poems and Essays in Honour of Jeremy Hooker Aberystwyth Celtic Studies 2007 References edit poetry archive org Writers in a Landscape xi Imagining Wales 188 190 See Welsh Journal See Upstate A North American Journal Enitharmon Editions Wales The Learned Society of Jeremy Hooker The Learned Society of Wales Retrieved 30 August 2023 Foundation Poetry 27 April 2023 Poetry Foundation Poetry Foundation Acknowledgements to Our Lady in Europe Brittle Star Magazine The Poetry of Place 170 Writers in a Landscape vii See Introduction to Imagining Wales Imagining Wales 4 Afterword to A View from the Source External links editJeremy Hooker Poetry Foundation Jeremy Hooker all recordings Retrieved from https en wikipedia org w index php title Jeremy Hooker amp oldid 1172961141, wikipedia, wiki, book, books, library,

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