Selected Poems 1965-2018 by Jeremy Hooker Alan Felsenthal and even somewhat beyond

and even somewhat beyond

the characters presented are in thrall to truth

from the Garden of Eden to the French Revolution and the fall of the Berlin Wall

of his projected final volume

Jack Mapanje

Selected Poems 1965-2018 by Jeremy Hooker Alan Felsenthal and even somewhat beyondThis 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