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The Very Best of Vernon Scannell
This is a collection of Vernon Scannell's poetry bound in one volume.
Walking Wounded
This uncompromising biography tells the story of a wounded D-Day veteran, a deserter, a violent drunk, a loving father who abandoned his first child, a boxer and brawler, a wife-beater, a bigamist, and a passionately romantic lover. It is also, most importantly, the story of a poet. Vernon Scannell wrote some of the finest poetry to come out of the Second World War. He won the Chomondeley Prize and the Heinemann Award, and for half a century he was acknowledged as one of the leading poets in the country. His Collected Poems are still in print, and his poetry for both adults and children is regularly anthologised and appears on English Literature examination papers. Scannell died in 2007, and...
Literary Papers of Vernon Scannell, Together with an Autograph Letter
Comprises: (1) Literary papers of Vernon Scannell dated 1963-1966, including (a) autograph manuscripts and revised typescripts of eight poems, together with a press cutting from the Sunday Times for 29 January 1967 of his poem 'View from a High Chair'; (b) two manuscript notebooks of reviews and broadcasts, together with miscellaneous other typescripts (mainly of his reviews for 'The World of Books'); and (c) and a printed copy of BBC Radio broadcast poems for schools in the Summer Term 1964, which includes Scannell's poem 'First Fight' with autograph marginal annotations written with a red ballpoint pen; and (2) 1 autograph manuscript letter from Scannell to David [Tipton] dated 13 November 1962.
Vernon Scannell Papers
Consists of nine autograph letters from Scannell to his wife Jo, written in 1967 from Brixton Prison, London, England.
Walking Wounded
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Farewell Performance
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The Loving Game
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Views and Distances
Views and Distances is Vernon Scannell's first collection of poems to be published since The Black and White Days in 1996. Although he is one of our most senior poets, this volume shows no diminution in the wit, technical skill and sheer imaginative and emotional range that characterise his work. In his new book there are poems that celebrate the durability of love in its various manifestations and others that revel in the ludic possibilities of language. A number of classical forms are employed, including the sonnet, villanelle and sestina, but Scannell always maintains an easy colloquial voice, even in the most eloquent and lyrical pieces.
Of Love and War
"Vernon Scannell is undoubtedly one of the most important poets of the Second World War, a fact that is reflected in his critical acclaim and popular appeal. Of Love and War contains a selection, made by the author himself, of the best of his previously published poetry on the themes of love and war, along with a number of new poems. This combination presents the reader with a rich and enjoyable volume of work. As described in the Sunday Telegraph, Scannell's poems are carefully crafted: 'Scannell is one of what seems to be a vanishing breed, a poet of technical accomplishment who understands that poetry, like the other arts, is a craft as well' The poems in Of Love and War explore all aspects of human love and conflict in a wide range of ways - sardonic, celebratory, tender and bittersweet." --Publisher description.
