Books by Vernon Scannell

Vernon Scannell is one of the finest and most widely anthologised poets of our time. He served with The Gordon Highlanders during the Second World War in the Middle East and the Normandy D Day landings, after which he was wounded in the fighting. He has boxed as an amateur and a professional. His poetry has received a number of accolades including the Heinemann Award for Literature, the Cholmondoley Poetry Prize and a Society of Authors Travelling Scholarship. He has read his work to great acclaim on radio, TV and at countless literary festivals. He is an Honorary Fellow of The Royal Society of Literature and has been granted a Civil List Pension for his services to literature.