Their Silence a Language

Jeremy Hooker, Lee Grandjean

ISBN 10: 187061223X / ISBN 13: 9781870612234

Published by Enitharmon Press, 1997

About this Item

So the old snake sheds its skins. Clash of flint with flint that waves hurl against chalk. Risings, sinkings: cycle on cycle. Fresh water, salt water, brackish lagoon. Whirl and loop of streaming gravel. Cloud on cloud of sediment. Yaldhurst: the tilled fields. This collection is the outcome of a creative collaboration between the poet Jeremy Hooker and the sculptor Lee Grandjean. The work originated from Hooker's lifelong knowledge of the New Forest in the south of England and Grandjean's powerful tree images. The book creates a strong sense of the presence of the Forest, but is concerned primarily to realize an imaginative vision that involves new relationships, especially between man and nature. It comprises photographs of sculpture, two woodcuts and unique drawings specifically designed around the text of the sequence of poems, as well as an essay by Hooker on the collaboration, and extracts from his explorations of the Forest in prose.

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Bibliographic Details

• Title: Their Silence a Language
• Publisher: Enitharmon Press
• Publication Date: 1997
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 187061223X
• ISBN 13: 9781870612234
• Binding: Paperback
• Illustrator: Grandjean, Lee

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Synopsis

So the old snake sheds its skins. Clash of flint with flint that waves hurl against chalk. Risings, sinkings: cycle on cycle. Fresh water, salt water, brackish lagoon. Whirl and loop of streaming gravel. Cloud on cloud of sediment. Yaldhurst: the tilled fields. This collection is the outcome of a creative collaboration between the poet Jeremy Hooker and the sculptor Lee Grandjean. The work originated from Hooker's lifelong knowledge of the New Forest in the south of England and Grandjean's powerful tree images. The book creates a strong sense of the presence of the Forest, but is concerned primarily to realize an imaginative vision that involves new relationships, especially between man and nature. It comprises photographs of sculpture, two woodcuts and unique drawings specifically designed around the text of the sequence of poems, as well as an essay by Hooker on the collaboration, and extracts from his explorations of the Forest in prose.

About the Author

In a distinguished career as poet and academic, Jeremy Hooker has published studies of David Jones, John Cowper Powys and Richard Jefferies, and a number of critical books, including Writers in a Landscape and Imagining Wales: A View of Modern Welsh Writing in English. He was born in Hampshire in 1941 and is now a Professor at the University of Glamorgan.