Word and Stone by Jeremy Hooker Michael Murphy Memorial Prize and the legendary are given

and the legendary are given a voice in Carol Ann Duffy's sparkling and inventive collection

but where do these affinities come from

it is deeply rooted in the working class the poet springs from

'[He] has made himself into a kind of unofficial poet laureate

These multifaceted poems explore what identity isn’t and is

Word and Stone by Jeremy Hooker Michael Murphy Memorial Prize and the legendary are givenWord and Stone is questioning poetry which explores the ground between language that seeks meaning, and the obduracy of matter, and between life and what seems dead. Its concern is with a sense of the sacred, and the possibility of renewing words such as spirit and soul in a materialist culture. But it celebrates the material world too, drawing upon nature and history in Hookers native Hampshire and his adoptive South Wales. It contains a number of