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

but where do these affinities come 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