Jeremy Hooker

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Jeremy Hooker (born 1941) is an English poet, critic, lecturer, and broadcaster born in Warsash, Hampshire.

Hooker has published ten collections of poetry, of which the most recent are Our Lady of Europe (1997), and Adamah (2002). 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, and Welsh Journal.

He has edited writings by Alun Lewis, Frances Bellerby, Richard Jefferies, and Wilfred Owen and has taught in universities in Wales, England, the Netherlands, and the United States. He is currently a Lecturer in English Literature at the University of Glamorgan.

Hooker's most recent book, titled The Cut of the Light: Poems 1965-2005, draws extensively on poetry he has written over a period of forty years and contains early, previously unpublished poems and some new versions of later work. It shows the development of a poetry concerned with nature and history and the spirit of place, and includes both formal variety and the "art of seeing" which relates Hooker to a vital tradition of British and American poetry. The book has been selected as one of ten English-language finalists for the 2006 Wales Book of the Year award.^[1]