Low life
Poetry, please
Jeremy Clarke on his low life
Last Saturday I was sitting at the kitchen table ready to go out for the evening, when I heard at the tail end of a radio news bulletin that the English poet Vernon Scannell had died. The name rang a bell. I went to the bookshelf and, yes, there was Vernon Scannell’s Collected Poems 1950–1993, bought several years ago in a charity shop and not looked at since.
I hadn’t heard of Vernon Scannell before I came across his book of poems by chance, or of the publisher. I was intrigued by the paperback’s unpretentious design. On the back cover a poetry critic admitted to liking the poems enough to reread some of them. Someone else was quoted as saying that he was surprised that ‘Mr Scannell has not been made more of’.
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ColinG
November 24th, 2007 2:25pmMr.Clarke, If your knowledge of Vernon Scannell is genuinely limited to the radio announcement and the book of poems, may I suggest that you read his broadsheet obituaries.
John Dancer
December 1st, 2007 6:57pmDear Jeremy, Who cares? You and I. So that makes two already. Yours merrily, John