Word and Stone by Jeremy Hooker Michael Murphy Memorial Prize and only half mollified by

and only half mollified by the thought that someone else is reading it now

Between the birth of the poet’s daughter and the deaths of his parents

Winner of the Costa Book of the Year for her final collection

These multifaceted poems explore what identity isn’t and is

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

Word and Stone by Jeremy Hooker Michael Murphy Memorial Prize and only half mollified byWord 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