Vernon Scannell

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Vernon Scannell (1922-2007) was a British poet and writer who died on November 16.

He was a professional boxer who wrote books about the sport. His number of published poems stands at 53.

Personal life

Vernon Scannell, whose birth name was John Vernon Bain, was born in 1922 in Spilsby, Lincolnshire. The family, who was always poor, moved frequently, including Ballaghaderreen in Ireland, Beeston, and Eccles, before settling in Buckinghamshire. Bain spent the bulk of his youth in Buckinghamshire's Aylesbury. His father served in the First World War and moved to work as a commercial photographer. Scannell attended the local Queen's Park Boys' School, an elementary council school. He left school at the age of 14 to work as a clerk in an insurance company. However, his true passions were for a strange blend of boxing and literature. He had been winning boxing titles from a young age and had been an avid reader from a young age, but not fully committed to poetry until about age 15, when he picked up a Walter de la Mare poem and became "instantly and permanently hooked." Thomas Hardy's poetry as well as Edgar Wallace's thrillers were both read often.

In 1940, Scannell enlisted in the army "as a lark," shortly after war was declared. He joined the Argyll and Sutherland Highlanders, and two years later, he was transferred to the Gordon Highlanders, a faction of the 51st Highland Division. In the North African desert, the war brought him to life. During the Eighth Army's push to Tunisia, he fought at El Alamein and across the western desert. Following an assault on an Axis-controlled hill near Gabes, he watched as his Gordon Highlanders advanced through the recently taken position, looting the bodies, both Allied and Axis. He walked away, having been revolted. He was arrested and detained for fleeing a forward zone. He served six months in one of Alexandria's harshest military prisons before being released on a suspended conviction to participate in the Normandy landings. When on night patrol near Caen, his war came to an end because he was shot in both legs. He was sent back to a military hospital in Winwick, Lancashire, before being transported to a convalescent depot. Scannell had always disliked army life, but there was nothing in his personality that made him suitable for the role of a soldier. Following the conclusion of the war in Europe (V.E. ), the war came to an end. Day (today): He deserted again and spent two years as a professional boxing champ, tutoring, and coaching, all the while learning himself by reading everything he could. During this difficult period, Scannell was writing poetry and was first published in Tribune and The Adelphi. He was also boxing for Leeds University, winning the Northern Universities Championships at three weights. In 1947, he was arrested and court-martialled and sent to Northfield Military Hospital, a mental hospital near Birmingham, and transferred to Northfield Military Hospital, a mental hospital near Birmingham. He returned to Leeds and then moved to London, where he helped himself with teaching and boxing, and finally to writing.

Scannell, a Fellow of the Royal Society of Literature, has received numerous poetry awards, including for his collection Walking Wounded. "The aim of poetry is to unite the sadness of the universe," A. E. Housman said, and Scannell quoted this with acceptance. Scannell's poems, which were influenced by his wartime experiences, were influenced and inspired by his love, violence, and death themes. In 1975, Scannell was given a Writing Fellowship in Berinsfield, Oxfordshire, an experience he retells in A Proper Gentleman and later, as Poet in Residence at the King's School, Canterbury, Canterbury. Last Post, his fourth collection, was published in 2007, but he hadn't been writing about it until well before his death.

Literary life

In 1961, Heinemann Award for Literature for an early poetry collection, The Masks of Love, and the Cholmondeley Award for poetry were given. In 1960, he was appointed a Fellow of the Royal Society of Literature and was given a Civil List pension in recognition of his contributions to literature in 1981. Stephen Spender, a poet who wrote in a letter to Scannell in 1953, wrote: "You write good poetry and that is all that matters." Seamus Heaney wrote a letter to Andrew Taylor that he admired Scannell's poems "not for their sturdiness and stability, but also for their blend of mordancy and a sense of mortality." "Scannell almost always works on two fronts, one realistic and exterior, the other imaginative, metaphorical, haunted by nostalgia and passion," the critic wrote. His work is steeped in humanity, as a master of the dramatic monologue. It's a sound of memories." Scannell also wrote the verse narrator for BBC Television film A House That Died.

"In recognition of his contributions to war poetry," he was given a special award from the Wilfred Owen Association. Walking Wounded (1965), Scannell's best-known book of war poetry, is Walking Wounded (1965). "No one was suffering from a lethal injury; They were not enhanced by noble wounds; there was no splendour in that company."

Scannell is also the author of A book, The Tiger and the Rose (1983). The unadorned tale chronicles five years of military service as well as a brief boxing career. "It's been a struggle to his army life that began forty-five years ago, 1945," Scannell writes about the year in which I took what seemed to be a desperate call and resulted in what seemed to be an act of criminal conviction, manic selfishness, shamular cowardice, or even eccentric courage." I was kicked out of the Army. Christopher Logue, author of some of the best war poetry of the past half-century (in the form of Iliad's variants), spent two years in a military jail on a charge of handling stolen pass books.

What would Owen say?

Never trust the teller, trust the story, he says.

Martin Johnes has used Scannell's 1951 book The Fight to explore racial attitudes in 1950s Britain. According to him, the representation of racial identities, including outright bigotry, was greater than recent sociological studies, in which private beliefs and thoughts were obscured.

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