Jeremy Hooker

Broschiertes Buch

Openings

A European Journal

Beschreibung

In contrast to my settled life in Wales during the 1970s, covered by Welsh Journal, the period represented by this journal was one of movements from place to place and country to country. Following two years in Winchester, and the breakdown of my first marriage, I returned to Wales in 1982 to complete five terms of teaching at the University College of Wales, Aberystwyth, before taking early retirement. I lodged with David Thomas in Llanbadarn, and travelled, as often as possible, to visit my children, who were living with Sue in Winchester, and to see my parents, at the family home in Pennington, between the New Forest and the coast. Openings begins with my meeting with Mieke at Cambridge in April 1983 and ends with my prospective return to England, following my successful application for a post at Bath College of Higher Education, as it then was, in May 1988. From 1984 I lived with Mieke and her daughter, Elin, and my son, Joe, at Groningen in the Netherlands, where, after a time, I resumed teaching. I made numerous journeys between Holland and England, within Holland, and to places in other parts of Europe. After I had spent several weeks as writer in residence on a kibbutz, Mieke joined me and we travelled to Jerusalem and other places in Israel/Palestine. These are the main outward movements, through which my experience of the world was widened, that give one meaning to the title of this selection from my journal. (Jeremy Hooker)

Autor

Jeremy Hooker was born in 1941 and grew up in Warsash near Southampton, and the landscape of this region has remained an important source of inspiration. Many of his poems were written in Wales, where he has lived for long periods of his life, and now lives in retirement. His academic career has taken him to universities in England, the Netherlands and the USA and he was Professor of English at the University of Glamorgan before his retirement. As well as his many collections of poetry, including a Collected Poems from Enitharmon and a large Selected Poems 1965-2018 from Shearsman Books, Hooker is also well-known as a critic and has published selections of writings by Edward Thomas and Richard Jefferies, as well as studies of David Jones and John Cowper Powys, all of them important to his own creative life.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Shearsman Books
• Seitenzahl: 292
• Erscheinungstermin: 14. März 2014
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 229mm x 152mm x 17mm
• Gewicht: 478g
• ISBN-13: 9781848613041
• ISBN-10: 1848613040
• Artikelnr.: 40556331