Walking Wounded: The Life and Poetry of Vernon Scanell

by James Andrew Taylor

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...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0199603189
• ISBN13: 9780199603183
• Release Date: January 2014
• Publisher: Oxford University Press, USA
• Length: 448 Pages
• Weight: 1.85 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.3" x 6.5" x 9.2"