Synopsis
This collection is the outcome of a creative collaboration between the poet Jeremy Hooker and the sculptor Lee Grandjean. The work originated from Hooker’s lifelong knowledge of the New Forest in the south of England and Grandjean’s powerful tree images. The book creates a strong sense of the presence of the Forest, but is concerned primarily to realize an imaginative vision that involves new relationships, especially between man and nature. It comprises photographs of sculpture, two woodcuts and unique drawings specifically designed around the text of the sequence of poems, as well as an essay by Hooker on the collaboration, and extracts from his explorations of the Forest in prose.
About the Author
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.
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