The Selected Poems 1965 – 2018 of Jeremy Hooker, Emeritus Professor of English at the University of South Wales, were published this summer.

This volume draws on over 50 years of poetry written by a poet who stands a little askew to the dominant modes in Britain: an Englishman in Wales, and an English poet with a decided admiration for the work of both George Oppen and David Jones, two very different Modernist exemplars, whose work often seems to be admired rather than engaged with in this archipelago.

Jeremy Hooker is a literary explorer, and a poet with a powerful sense of place, whose joy in landscape and his surroundings shines through his body of work.”

I am a lyric poet who seeks to free himself from the limitations of a narrow subjectivity.” — Jeremy Hooker