Extract from Chapter 12, Walking Wounded – the Life and Poetry of Vernon Scannell The Loving Game was nominated by the Poetry Book Society as its Christmas Choice for 1975 – an important accolade. Like all Scannell’s work, its poems are accessible and subtle and speak with a direct and colloquial voice, but they are also…
Read MoreExtract from Chapter 4, Walking Wounded – the Life and Poetry of Vernon Scannell The point of [Wilfred] Owen’s poetry, of [Keith] Douglas’s war poetry, is generally the brutal pathos of what happens in combat – the poetry, as Owen memorably said, is in the pity. But where they write about the victims – the…
Read MoreFrom Walking Wounded – the Life and Poetry of Vernon Scannell “Even as a young boy, Vernon was fascinated by the history of boxing, by the great names of both the past and the present. He knew their life stories, he could rattle off the statistics that marked out their careers, and he knew the…
Read MoreSo your book’s finished, it’s published, it’s in the shops and sitting bubbling away quietly on Amazon. Surely now, after three or four years’ work, you can leave it alone? Well, no you can’t. That precious baby you gave birth to with such care and loving tenderness now has a life of its own, like…
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