Author

Publication

2001 - Seren Books, Bridgend, Wales, Wales

Language

English

Word Count

63,000 words, Guess

Page Count

252 pages

Identifiers

  • ISBN-101854113011
  • ISBN-139781854113016
  • Goodreads2003523
  • LibraryThing9124453
  • Library of Congress Control Number2002437795
and 3 more

Classifications

  • DDC821/.914
  • DDCB
  • LCCPR6058.O555 Z475 2001
and 1 more
  • LCCPR6058.O555Z475 2001

Description

"In Welsh Journal Jeremy Hooker recalls his life in the seventies when he was an English lecturer (in both senses) at the University of Wales in Aberystwyth. Delighting in his closeness to nature, life in a cottage in rural Llangwyryfon is delineated in delicate, poetic prose: the passing seasons, work in the garden, walking the mountains, the birth of his two children. Yet though stimulated by the new surroundings, Hooker found himself isolated, unable to enter fully into the Welsh-speaking community, at odds with his position as an academic, haunted too by a longing for his Dorset homeland. As a writer he must grapple with depression and a failure of poetic nerve. Consolation is found in the companionship of fellow poets and critics, in the hard-crafted completion of a sequence of poems, in the rain-borne scent of the newly-turned earth."--BOOK JACKET.

Subjects

Topics

DiariesLecturersBiographyEnglish PoetsPoets, EnglishHomes and hauntsIntellectual life

Places

WalesAberystwythLlangwyryfonLlangwyryfon ( Wales)

People

Jeremy Hooker (1941-)

Times

Genres

  • Diaries

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