Word and Stone by Jeremy Hooker Michael Murphy Memorial Prize but where do these affinities

but where do these affinities come from

and The Wound was inspired by his anger towards the destruction being wrought on the West Australian coastal bushland by the controversial proposed construction of the Roe 8 Highway Extension

These multifaceted poems explore what identity isn’t and is

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

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Word and Stone by Jeremy Hooker Michael Murphy Memorial Prize but where do these affinitiesWord 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