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.mw-parser-output .infobox-table th,body.skin--responsive .mw-parser-output .infobox-table td{padding-left:inherit;padding-right:inherit}}</style><table class="infobox vcard"><tbody><tr><th colspan="2" class="infobox-above" style="font-size:125%;"><div style="display:inline;" class="fn">Vernon Scannell</div></th></tr><tr><td colspan="2" class="infobox-image"><span class="mw-default-size" typeof="mw:File/Frameless"><a href="/wiki/File:Vernon_Scannell.jpg" class="mw-file-description" title="Vernon Scannell"><img alt="Vernon Scannell" src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/d/d6/Vernon_Scannell.jpg" decoding="async" width="156" height="209" class="mw-file-element" data-file-width="156" data-file-height="209" /></a></span><div class="infobox-caption" style="line-height:1.4em;">Vernon Scannell</div></td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="infobox-label" style="line-height:1.2em; padding-right:0.65em;">Born</th><td class="infobox-data" style="line-height:1.4em;">John Vernon Bain<br /><span style="display:none">(<span class="bday">1922-01-23</span>)</span>23 January 1922<br /><a href="/wiki/Spilsby" title="Spilsby">Spilsby</a>, Lincolnshire, England</td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="infobox-label" style="line-height:1.2em; padding-right:0.65em;">Died</th><td class="infobox-data" style="line-height:1.4em;">16 November 2007<span style="display:none">(2007-11-16)</span> (aged 85)<br /><a href="/wiki/West_Yorkshire" title="West Yorkshire">West Yorkshire</a>, England</td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="infobox-label" style="line-height:1.2em; padding-right:0.65em;">Occupation</th><td class="infobox-data role" style="line-height:1.4em;">Writer</td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="infobox-label" style="line-height:1.2em; padding-right:0.65em;">Language</th><td class="infobox-data" style="line-height:1.4em;">English</td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="infobox-label" style="line-height:1.2em; padding-right:0.65em;">Nationality</th><td class="infobox-data category" style="line-height:1.4em;">British</td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="infobox-label" style="line-height:1.2em; padding-right:0.65em;">Education</th><td class="infobox-data" style="line-height:1.4em;">University of Leeds</td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="infobox-label" style="line-height:1.2em; padding-right:0.65em;">Subject</th><td class="infobox-data" style="line-height:1.4em;">Poetry, English</td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="infobox-label" style="line-height:1.2em; padding-right:0.65em;">Spouse</th><td class="infobox-data" style="line-height:1.4em;">Jo Higson (Painter)</td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="infobox-label" style="line-height:1.2em; padding-right:0.65em;">Partner</th><td class="infobox-data" style="line-height:1.4em;">none</td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="infobox-label" style="line-height:1.2em; padding-right:0.65em;">Children</th><td class="infobox-data" style="line-height:1.4em;">6</td></tr></tbody></table> <p><b>Vernon Scannell</b> (23 January 1922 – 16 November 2007) was a British poet and author. He was at one time a professional <a href="/wiki/Boxing" title="Boxing">boxer</a>, and wrote novels about the sport of boxing. He was a famous poet of English. </p> <meta property="mw:PageProp/toc" /> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading2"><h2 id="Life">Life</h2><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Vernon_Scannell&action=edit&section=1" title="Edit section: Life"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <p>Vernon Scannell, whose birth name was <b>John Vernon Bain</b>, was born in 1922 in <a href="/wiki/Spilsby" title="Spilsby">Spilsby</a>, Lincolnshire. The family, always poor, moved frequently, including <a href="/wiki/Ballaghaderreen" title="Ballaghaderreen">Ballaghaderreen</a> in Ireland, Beeston, and Eccles, before settling in Buckinghamshire. Bain spent most of his youth growing up in <a href="/wiki/Aylesbury" title="Aylesbury">Aylesbury</a> in Buckinghamshire.<sup id="cite_ref-FOOTNOTEBiermanSmith2002272_1-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-FOOTNOTEBiermanSmith2002272-1"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>1<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> His father had fought in <a href="/wiki/World_War_I" title="World War I">World War I</a>, and came to make a living as a commercial photographer. Scannell attended the local Queen's Park Boys' School, an elementary council school.<sup id="cite_ref-2" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-2"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>2<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> He left school at the age of 14 to work as a clerk in an insurance office.<sup id="cite_ref-FOOTNOTEBiermanSmith2002272_1-1" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-FOOTNOTEBiermanSmith2002272-1"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>1<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> His real passions, however, were for the unlikely combination of boxing and literature. He had been winning boxing titles at school and had been a keen reader from a very early age, although not properly attaching to poetry until about 15 years old, when he picked up a <a href="/wiki/Walter_de_la_Mare" title="Walter de la Mare">Walter de la Mare</a> poem and was "instantly and permanently hooked". He frequently read both the poetry of <a href="/wiki/Thomas_Hardy" title="Thomas Hardy">Thomas Hardy</a> and the thrillers of <a href="/wiki/Edgar_Wallace" title="Edgar Wallace">Edgar Wallace</a>.<sup id="cite_ref-FOOTNOTEBiermanSmith2002272_1-2" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-FOOTNOTEBiermanSmith2002272-1"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>1<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p><p>Scannell enlisted in the army "as a lark" in 1940, shortly after war was declared. He joined the Argyll and Sutherland Highlanders,<sup id="cite_ref-FOOTNOTEBiermanSmith2002272_1-3" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-FOOTNOTEBiermanSmith2002272-1"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>1<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> and two years later was transferred to the Gordon Highlanders, a part of the <a href="/wiki/51st_Highland_Division" class="mw-redirect" title="51st Highland Division">51st Highland Division</a>.<sup id="cite_ref-ReferenceA_3-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-ReferenceA-3"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>3<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> The war took him into action in the North African desert. He fought at <a href="/wiki/Battle_of_El_Alamein" title="Battle of El Alamein">El Alamein</a> and across the western desert during the <a href="/wiki/Eighth_Army_(United_Kingdom)" title="Eighth Army (United Kingdom)">Eighth Army</a>'s drive to reach <a href="/wiki/Tunisia" title="Tunisia">Tunisia</a>. Following an assault on an Axis-held hill near <a href="/wiki/Gabes" class="mw-redirect" title="Gabes">Gabes</a> he watched as his Gordon Highlanders moved through the recently taken position, looting the dead, both Allied and Axis. Revolted, he walked away.<sup id="cite_ref-FOOTNOTEBiermanSmith2002394_4-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-FOOTNOTEBiermanSmith2002394-4"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>4<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> He was caught and court-martialled for deserting a forward area.<sup id="cite_ref-FOOTNOTEBiermanSmith2002394_4-1" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-FOOTNOTEBiermanSmith2002394-4"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>4<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> Sentenced to three years' imprisonment, he spent six months in one of the harshest military penal institutions in Alexandria before being released on a suspended sentence to take part in the Normandy landings.<sup id="cite_ref-FOOTNOTEBiermanSmith2002394_4-2" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-FOOTNOTEBiermanSmith2002394-4"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>4<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> His war ended when he was shot in both legs while on night patrol near Caen. He was shipped back to a military hospital at Winwick in Lancashire before being sent on to a convalescent depot. Scannell had always very much disliked army life, finding nothing in his temperament which fitted him for the part of a soldier.<sup id="cite_ref-5" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-5"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>5<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> Following the end of the war in Europe (<a href="/wiki/Victory_in_Europe_Day" title="Victory in Europe Day">V.E. Day</a>) he deserted again and spent two years on the run, earning his living with jobs in the theatre, professional boxing bouts and tutoring and coaching, all the while teaching himself by reading everything he could. During this evasive time Scannell was writing poetry and was first published in <i><a href="/wiki/Tribune_(magazine)" title="Tribune (magazine)">Tribune</a></i> and <i><a href="/wiki/The_Adelphi" title="The Adelphi">The Adelphi</a></i>. He was also boxing for <a href="/wiki/Leeds_University" class="mw-redirect" title="Leeds University">Leeds University</a>, winning the Northern Universities Championships at three weights. In 1947 he was arrested and court-martialled and sent to <a href="/wiki/Hollymoor_Hospital" title="Hollymoor Hospital">Northfield Military Hospital</a>, a mental institution near <a href="/wiki/Birmingham" title="Birmingham">Birmingham</a>. On discharge he returned to <a href="/wiki/Leeds" title="Leeds">Leeds</a> and then went to London, where, supporting himself with teaching jobs and boxing, he settled down to writing. </p><p>Scannell, a fellow of the Royal Society of Literature,<sup id="cite_ref-ReferenceA_3-1" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-ReferenceA-3"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>3<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> won many poetry awards, including for war poems such as his collection <i>Walking Wounded</i>. <a href="/wiki/A._E._Housman" title="A. E. Housman">A. E. Housman</a> said that "the business of poetry is to harmonise the sadness of the universe" and Scannell quoted this with approval. Scannell's poems, with their themes of love, violence and mortality, were shaped and influenced by his wartime experiences. Scannell was awarded a Writing Fellowship in 1975 as Resident Poet in <a href="/wiki/Berinsfield" title="Berinsfield">Berinsfield</a>, Oxfordshire, an experience he recounts in <i>A Proper Gentleman</i><sup id="cite_ref-ReferenceB_6-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-ReferenceB-6"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>6<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> and later, in 1979 he spent a term as Poet in Residence at the King's School, Canterbury.<sup id="cite_ref-WalkingWounded_7-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-WalkingWounded-7"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>7<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> His final collection, <i>Last Post</i>, was published in 2007; he had been working on it until not long before his death. </p><p>Scannell married the painter Josephine Higson who survives him, along with four of their six children. </p> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading2"><h2 id="Literary_life">Literary life</h2><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Vernon_Scannell&action=edit&section=2" title="Edit section: Literary life"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <p>He received the <a href="/wiki/Heinemann_Award_for_Literature" class="mw-redirect" title="Heinemann Award for Literature">Heinemann Award for Literature</a> in 1961 for an early poetry volume, <i>The Masks of Love</i>,<sup id="cite_ref-ReferenceB_6-1" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-ReferenceB-6"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>6<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> and the <a href="/wiki/Cholmondeley_Award" title="Cholmondeley Award">Cholmondeley Award</a> for poetry in 1974. He was elected a Fellow of the <a href="/wiki/Royal_Society_of_Literature" title="Royal Society of Literature">Royal Society of Literature</a> in 1960 and granted a <a href="/wiki/Civil_List_pension" class="mw-redirect" title="Civil List pension">Civil List pension</a> in recognition of his services to literature in 1981.<sup id="cite_ref-telegraph.co.uk_8-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-telegraph.co.uk-8"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>8<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> <a href="/wiki/Stephen_Spender" title="Stephen Spender">Stephen Spender</a> wrote to Scannell in a letter in 1953: "you write good poetry and that is all that matters".<sup id="cite_ref-9" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-9"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>9<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> <a href="/wiki/Seamus_Heaney" title="Seamus Heaney">Seamus Heaney</a> in a letter to Andrew Taylor said he admired Scannell's poems "not only for their sturdy metrical pace and structure, but for their combination of mordancy and a sense of mortality".<sup id="cite_ref-WalkingWounded_7-1" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-WalkingWounded-7"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>7<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> <a href="/wiki/John_Carey_(critic)" title="John Carey (critic)">John Carey</a>, the critic, commented: "Scannell nearly always works on two levels, one realistic and external, the other imaginative, metaphorical, haunted by memory and desire. A master of the dramatic monologue, his work is drenched in humanity. It resounds with memories."<sup id="cite_ref-10" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-10"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>10<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> Scannell also wrote the verse narration for <a href="/wiki/BBC" title="BBC">BBC</a> Television film <i>A House that Died</i>.<sup id="cite_ref-11" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-11"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>11<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p><p>He also received a special award from the <a href="/wiki/Wilfred_Owen" title="Wilfred Owen">Wilfred Owen</a> Association "in recognition of his contribution to war poetry". Scannell's best-known book of war poetry is <i>Walking Wounded</i> (1965). The title poem recollects a column of men returning from battle: "No one was suffering from a lethal hurt, They were not magnified by noble wounds, There was no splendour in that company." </p><p>Scannell is also the author of a memoir, <i>The Tiger and the Rose</i> (1983). The unadorned narrative covers five years' military service and a brief boxing career. Scannell writes about the conclusion to his army life, "Twenty-five years ago, 1945...was the year I made what might seem like a desperate decision and performed what might appear to be an act of criminal folly, manic selfishness, zany recklessness, abject cowardice or even, perhaps, eccentric courage. I deserted from the Army." The first recipient of the Owen Award, <a href="/wiki/Christopher_Logue" title="Christopher Logue">Christopher Logue</a>, author of some of the best war poetry of the past half-century (in the form of versions of the <a href="/wiki/Iliad" title="Iliad">Iliad</a>), spent two years in a military prison, on a charge of handling stolen passbooks. What would Owen say? He'd say: Never trust the teller, trust the tale."<sup id="cite_ref-12" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-12"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>12<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p><p>Historian Martin Johnes has used Scannell's 1951 novel <i>The Fight</i> to explore racial attitudes in 1950s Britain. He argues that its depictions of reactions to a black boxer illustrate the diversity of racial attitudes, including outright racism, better than contemporary sociological studies where private assumptions and thoughts were hidden.<sup id="cite_ref-13" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-13"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>13<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading2"><h2 id="Death">Death</h2><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Vernon_Scannell&action=edit&section=3" title="Edit section: Death"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <p>Scannell spent the final years of his life living in <a href="/wiki/Otley" title="Otley">Otley</a>, West Yorkshire, where he died at his home at the age of 85 after a long illness.<sup id="cite_ref-14" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-14"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>14<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading2"><h2 id="Works">Works</h2><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Vernon_Scannell&action=edit&section=4" title="Edit section: Works"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading3"><h3 id="Poetry">Poetry</h3><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Vernon_Scannell&action=edit&section=5" title="Edit section: Poetry"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <ul><li><i>Graves and Resurrections</i> (1948), poems</li> <li><i>The Wound and The Scar</i> (Peter Nevill, 1953)</li> <li><i>A Mortal Pitch</i> (Villiers, 1957), poems</li> <li><i>The Masks of Love</i> (<a href="/wiki/G._P._Putnam%27s_Sons" title="G. P. Putnam's Sons">Putnam</a>, 1960), poems</li> <li><i>A Sense of Danger</i> (Putnam, 1962), poems</li> <li><i>New Poems 1962: A P. E. N. Anthology</i> (<a href="/wiki/Hutchinson_(publisher)" class="mw-redirect" title="Hutchinson (publisher)">Hutchinson</a>, 1962), editor with <a href="/wiki/Patricia_Beer" title="Patricia Beer">Patricia Beer</a> and <a href="/wiki/Ted_Hughes" title="Ted Hughes">Ted Hughes</a></li> <li><i>The Dividing Night</i> (Putnam, 1962)</li> <li><i>Edward Thomas</i> (1963)</li> <li><i>The Loving Game</i> (1965), poems</li> <li><i>Walking Wounded – Poems 1962–65</i> (1965)</li> <li><i>Pergamon Poets</i> 8 (1970), with <a href="/wiki/Jon_Silkin" title="Jon Silkin">Jon Silkin</a></li> <li><i>Epithets of War – Poems 1965–69</i> (<a href="/wiki/Eyre_%26_Spottiswoode" title="Eyre & Spottiswoode">Eyre & Spottiswoode</a>, 1969)</li> <li><i>The Dangerous Ones</i> (Elsevier, 1970)</li> <li><i>Mastering the Craft</i> (<a href="/wiki/Pergamon_Press" title="Pergamon Press">Pergamon Press</a>, 1970)</li> <li><i>Selected Poems</i> (<a href="/wiki/Allison_%26_Busby" title="Allison & Busby">Allison & Busby</a>, 1971)</li> <li><i>Company of Women</i> (<a href="/wiki/Sceptre_Press" class="mw-redirect" title="Sceptre Press">Sceptre Press</a>, 1971)</li> <li><i>Incident at West Bay, a poem</i> (<a href="/wiki/The_Keepsake_Press" class="mw-redirect" title="The Keepsake Press">The Keepsake Press</a>, 1972)</li> <li><i>The Winter Man</i> (Allison & Busby, 1973)</li> <li><i>Wish You Were Here</i> (1973), broadsheet poem</li> <li><i>Meeting in Manchester</i> (1974)</li> <li><i>The Apple-Raid and Other Poems</i> (<a href="/wiki/Chatto_%26_Windus" title="Chatto & Windus">Chatto & Windus</a>, 1974)</li> <li><i>Three Poets, Two Children: Leonard Clark, Vernon Scannell, Dannie Abse, Answer Questions by Two Children</i> (1975)</li> <li><i>A Morden Tower Reading</i> (1976) poems, with <a href="/wiki/Alexis_Lykiard" title="Alexis Lykiard">Alexis Lykiard</a></li> <li><i>Not Without Glory: Poets of the Second World War</i> (Woburn Press, 1976), editor</li> <li><i>Of Love And Music</i> (Mapletree, 1979), poems</li> <li><i>Loving Game: Poems</i> (<a href="/wiki/Robson_Books" class="mw-redirect" title="Robson Books">Robson Books</a>, 1979)</li> <li><i>New & Collected Poems 1950–1980</i> (Robson Books, 1980)</li> <li><i>Nettles</i> (Robson Books, 1980; as part of <i>New & Collected Poems 1950–1980</i>)</li> <li><i>Catch the Light</i> (1982), poems, with <a href="/w/index.php?title=Gregory_Harrison_(poet)&action=edit&redlink=1" class="new" title="Gregory Harrison (poet) (page does not exist)">Gregory Harrison</a> and <a href="/w/index.php?title=Laurence_Smith_(poet)&action=edit&redlink=1" class="new" title="Laurence Smith (poet) (page does not exist)">Laurence Smith</a></li> <li><i>Winterlude: Poems</i> (Robson Books, 1982)</li> <li><i>Funeral Games and Other Poems</i> (Robson Books, 1987)</li> <li><i>Sporting Literature</i> (Oxford, 1987), editor, anthology</li> <li><i>The Clever Potato – A Feast of Poetry for Children</i> (Red Fox, 1988)</li> <li><i>Soldiering On. Poems of Military Life</i> (Robson Books, 1989)</li> <li><i>Love Shouts and Whispers</i> (Red Fox, 1990)</li> <li><i>A Time for Fires</i> (Robson Books, 1991), poems</li> <li><i>Travelling Light</i> (<a href="/wiki/Bodley_Head" class="mw-redirect" title="Bodley Head">Bodley Head</a>, 1991)</li> <li><i>The Black and White Days</i> (Robson Books, 1996), poems</li> <li><i>Collected Poems, 1950–93</i> (Robson Books, 1998)</li> <li><i>Feminine Endings</i> (<a href="/wiki/Enitharmon_Press" title="Enitharmon Press">Enitharmon Press</a>, 2000), poems</li> <li><i>Views and Distances</i> (Enitharmon Press, 2000), poems</li> <li><i>Of Love & War: New and Selected Poems</i> (Robson Books, 2002)</li> <li><i>Incendiary</i></li> <li><i>The Gunpowder Plot</i></li> <li><i>House for Sale</i></li> <li><i>Moods of Rain</i></li> <li><i>A Case of Murder poems</i></li> <li><i>Uncle Albert</i></li> <li><i>Hide and Seek</i></li> <li><i>Last Post</i> (Shoestring Press, 2007), <style 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.cs1-format{font-size:95%}html.skin-theme-clientpref-night .mw-parser-output .cs1-maint{color:#18911f}}@media screen and (prefers-color-scheme:dark){html.skin-theme-clientpref-os .mw-parser-output .cs1-maint{color:#18911f}}</style><a href="/wiki/ISBN_(identifier)" class="mw-redirect" title="ISBN (identifier)">ISBN</a> <a href="/wiki/Special:BookSources/978-1-904886-67-9" title="Special:BookSources/978-1-904886-67-9">978-1-904886-67-9</a></li> <li><i>A Place to Live</i> (The <a href="/wiki/Happy_Dragons%27_Press" title="Happy Dragons' Press">Happy Dragons' Press</a>, 2007)<sup id="cite_ref-Place_15-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-Place-15"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>15<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup></li> <li><i>Death of a Snow Man</i></li> <li><i>They Did Not Expect This</i></li> <li><i>The death of a snowman</i></li></ul> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading3"><h3 id="Autobiography">Autobiography</h3><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Vernon_Scannell&action=edit&section=6" title="Edit section: Autobiography"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <ul><li><i>The Tiger and the Rose</i> (<a href="/wiki/Hamish_Hamilton" title="Hamish Hamilton">Hamish Hamilton</a>, 1972)</li> <li><i>An Argument of Kings</i> (Parkwest, 1987)</li> <li><i>A Proper Gentleman</i> (Robson Books, 1977)</li> <li><i>Drums of Morning – Growing up in the Thirties</i> (Robson Books, 1992)</li></ul> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading3"><h3 id="Fiction">Fiction</h3><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Vernon_Scannell&action=edit&section=7" title="Edit section: Fiction"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <ul><li><i>The Fight</i> (Peter Nevill, 1953), novel</li> <li><i>The Big Chance</i> (John Long, 1960), novel</li> <li><i>The Face of the Enemy</i> (Putnam, 1961), novel</li> <li><i>The Shadowed Place</i> (1961), novel</li> <li><i>The Big Time</i> (<a href="/wiki/Longmans" class="mw-redirect" title="Longmans">Longmans</a>, 1965), novel</li> <li><i>Ring of Truth</i> (Robson Books, 1983), novel</li></ul> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading3"><h3 id="Other">Other</h3><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Vernon_Scannell&action=edit&section=8" title="Edit section: Other"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <ul><li><i>How to Enjoy Novels</i> (Piatkus Books, 1984)</li> <li><i>How To Enjoy Poetry</i> (<a href="/wiki/Piatkus_Books" class="mw-redirect" title="Piatkus Books">Piatkus Books</a>, 1983)</li> <li><i>A House that Died</i> Verse narration to BBC TV film</li></ul> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading2"><h2 id="Further_reading">Further reading</h2><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Vernon_Scannell&action=edit&section=9" title="Edit section: Further reading"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <ul><li>James Andrew Taylor: <i>Walking Wounded: The Life and Poetry of Vernon Scannell</i>, Oxford: <a href="/wiki/Oxford_University_Press" title="Oxford University Press">Oxford University Press</a>, 2013, <link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1238218222"><a href="/wiki/ISBN_(identifier)" class="mw-redirect" title="ISBN (identifier)">ISBN</a> <a href="/wiki/Special:BookSources/978-0-19-960318-3" title="Special:BookSources/978-0-19-960318-3">978-0-19-960318-3</a></li></ul> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading2"><h2 id="References">References</h2><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Vernon_Scannell&action=edit&section=10" title="Edit section: 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.reflist-lower-roman{list-style-type:lower-roman}</style><div class="reflist"> <div class="mw-references-wrap mw-references-columns"><ol class="references"> <li id="cite_note-FOOTNOTEBiermanSmith2002272-1"><span class="mw-cite-backlink">^ <a href="#cite_ref-FOOTNOTEBiermanSmith2002272_1-0"><sup><i><b>a</b></i></sup></a> <a href="#cite_ref-FOOTNOTEBiermanSmith2002272_1-1"><sup><i><b>b</b></i></sup></a> <a href="#cite_ref-FOOTNOTEBiermanSmith2002272_1-2"><sup><i><b>c</b></i></sup></a> <a href="#cite_ref-FOOTNOTEBiermanSmith2002272_1-3"><sup><i><b>d</b></i></sup></a></span> <span class="reference-text"><a href="#CITEREFBiermanSmith2002">Bierman & Smith 2002</a>, p. 272.</span> </li> <li id="cite_note-2"><span class="mw-cite-backlink"><b><a href="#cite_ref-2">^</a></b></span> <span class="reference-text">Scannell, Vernon, <i>Drums of Morning</i>, London: Robson Books, 1992. <link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1238218222"><a href="/wiki/ISBN_(identifier)" class="mw-redirect" title="ISBN (identifier)">ISBN</a> <a href="/wiki/Special:BookSources/1861052464" title="Special:BookSources/1861052464">1861052464</a></span> </li> <li id="cite_note-ReferenceA-3"><span class="mw-cite-backlink">^ <a href="#cite_ref-ReferenceA_3-0"><sup><i><b>a</b></i></sup></a> <a href="#cite_ref-ReferenceA_3-1"><sup><i><b>b</b></i></sup></a></span> <span class="reference-text">Cover note, <i>Not Without Glory</i>, London: Woburn Press. <link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1238218222"><a href="/wiki/ISBN_(identifier)" class="mw-redirect" title="ISBN (identifier)">ISBN</a> <a href="/wiki/Special:BookSources/0713000945" title="Special:BookSources/0713000945">0713000945</a></span> </li> <li id="cite_note-FOOTNOTEBiermanSmith2002394-4"><span class="mw-cite-backlink">^ <a href="#cite_ref-FOOTNOTEBiermanSmith2002394_4-0"><sup><i><b>a</b></i></sup></a> <a href="#cite_ref-FOOTNOTEBiermanSmith2002394_4-1"><sup><i><b>b</b></i></sup></a> <a href="#cite_ref-FOOTNOTEBiermanSmith2002394_4-2"><sup><i><b>c</b></i></sup></a></span> <span class="reference-text"><a href="#CITEREFBiermanSmith2002">Bierman & Smith 2002</a>, p. 394.</span> </li> <li id="cite_note-5"><span class="mw-cite-backlink"><b><a href="#cite_ref-5">^</a></b></span> <span class="reference-text">Cover note <i>An Argument of Kings</i>, London: Robson Books. <link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1238218222"><a href="/wiki/ISBN_(identifier)" class="mw-redirect" title="ISBN (identifier)">ISBN</a> <a href="/wiki/Special:BookSources/978-0-86051-444-2" title="Special:BookSources/978-0-86051-444-2">978-0-86051-444-2</a></span> </li> <li id="cite_note-ReferenceB-6"><span class="mw-cite-backlink">^ <a href="#cite_ref-ReferenceB_6-0"><sup><i><b>a</b></i></sup></a> <a href="#cite_ref-ReferenceB_6-1"><sup><i><b>b</b></i></sup></a></span> <span class="reference-text">Cover note, <i>New & Collected Poems 1950–1980</i>, London: Robson Books, 1980. <link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1238218222"><a href="/wiki/ISBN_(identifier)" class="mw-redirect" title="ISBN (identifier)">ISBN</a> <a href="/wiki/Special:BookSources/0860511049" title="Special:BookSources/0860511049">0860511049</a></span> </li> <li id="cite_note-WalkingWounded-7"><span class="mw-cite-backlink">^ <a href="#cite_ref-WalkingWounded_7-0"><sup><i><b>a</b></i></sup></a> <a href="#cite_ref-WalkingWounded_7-1"><sup><i><b>b</b></i></sup></a></span> <span class="reference-text">James Andrew Taylor, <i>Walking Wounded: The Life and Poetry of Vernon Scannell</i>, Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2013. <link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1238218222"><a href="/wiki/ISBN_(identifier)" class="mw-redirect" title="ISBN (identifier)">ISBN</a> <a href="/wiki/Special:BookSources/9780199603183" title="Special:BookSources/9780199603183">9780199603183</a></span> </li> <li id="cite_note-telegraph.co.uk-8"><span class="mw-cite-backlink"><b><a href="#cite_ref-telegraph.co.uk_8-0">^</a></b></span> <span class="reference-text"><a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="https://web.archive.org/web/20071121163451/http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/main.jhtml?view=DETAILS&grid=&xml=/news/2007/11/19/db1901.xml">"Vernon Scannell (obituary)"</a>, <i>The Telegraph</i>, 19 November 2007.</span> </li> <li id="cite_note-9"><span class="mw-cite-backlink"><b><a href="#cite_ref-9">^</a></b></span> <span class="reference-text">Scannell Vernon, <i>Tiger and the Rose</i>, London: Hamish Hamilton, 1971. <link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1238218222"><a href="/wiki/ISBN_(identifier)" class="mw-redirect" title="ISBN (identifier)">ISBN</a> <a href="/wiki/Special:BookSources/978-0-241-02054-8" title="Special:BookSources/978-0-241-02054-8">978-0-241-02054-8</a></span> </li> <li id="cite_note-10"><span class="mw-cite-backlink"><b><a href="#cite_ref-10">^</a></b></span> <span class="reference-text">Foreword to Taylor, <i>Walking Wounded: The Life and Poetry of Vernon Scannell</i>, 2013.</span> </li> <li id="cite_note-11"><span class="mw-cite-backlink"><b><a href="#cite_ref-11">^</a></b></span> <span class="reference-text">Cover note, <i>Tiger and the Rose</i>, London: Hamish Hamilton, 1971. <link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1238218222"><a href="/wiki/ISBN_(identifier)" class="mw-redirect" title="ISBN (identifier)">ISBN</a> <a href="/wiki/Special:BookSources/978-0-241-02054-8" title="Special:BookSources/978-0-241-02054-8">978-0-241-02054-8</a></span> </li> <li id="cite_note-12"><span class="mw-cite-backlink"><b><a href="#cite_ref-12">^</a></b></span> <span class="reference-text"><a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="https://web.archive.org/web/20110615070228/http://entertainment.timesonline.co.uk/tol/arts_and_entertainment/the_tls/article2306066.ece">"Network your poetry"</a>, <i>The Times</i>, 27 July 2007.</span> </li> <li id="cite_note-13"><span class="mw-cite-backlink"><b><a href="#cite_ref-13">^</a></b></span> <span class="reference-text"><link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1238218222"><cite id="CITEREFJohnes" class="citation journal cs1">Johnes, Martin. <a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="https://www.academia.edu/197993">"Texts, Audiences and Postmodernism: The Novel as Source in Sport History"</a>. <i>Journal of Sport History</i>.</cite><span title="ctx_ver=Z39.88-2004&rft_val_fmt=info%3Aofi%2Ffmt%3Akev%3Amtx%3Ajournal&rft.genre=article&rft.jtitle=Journal+of+Sport+History&rft.atitle=Texts%2C+Audiences+and+Postmodernism%3A+The+Novel+as+Source+in+Sport+History&rft.aulast=Johnes&rft.aufirst=Martin&rft_id=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.academia.edu%2F197993&rfr_id=info%3Asid%2Fen.wikipedia.org%3AVernon+Scannell" class="Z3988"></span></span> </li> <li id="cite_note-14"><span class="mw-cite-backlink"><b><a href="#cite_ref-14">^</a></b></span> <span class="reference-text"><link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1238218222"><cite class="citation web cs1"><a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="http://observer.guardian.co.uk/uk_news/story/0,,2212801,00.html">"News in brief"</a>. <i>The Observer</i>. 18 November 2007<span class="reference-accessdate">. Retrieved <span class="nowrap">22 March</span> 2016</span>.</cite><span title="ctx_ver=Z39.88-2004&rft_val_fmt=info%3Aofi%2Ffmt%3Akev%3Amtx%3Ajournal&rft.genre=unknown&rft.jtitle=The+Observer&rft.atitle=News+in+brief&rft.date=2007-11-18&rft_id=http%3A%2F%2Fobserver.guardian.co.uk%2Fuk_news%2Fstory%2F0%2C%2C2212801%2C00.html&rfr_id=info%3Asid%2Fen.wikipedia.org%3AVernon+Scannell" class="Z3988"></span></span> </li> <li id="cite_note-Place-15"><span class="mw-cite-backlink"><b><a href="#cite_ref-Place_15-0">^</a></b></span> <span class="reference-text"><link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1238218222"><cite class="citation web cs1"><a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="http://www.happydragonspress.co.uk/bibliography/scannell.shtml">"A Place to Live by Vernon Scannell"</a><span class="reference-accessdate">. Retrieved <span class="nowrap">30 September</span> 2009</span>.</cite><span title="ctx_ver=Z39.88-2004&rft_val_fmt=info%3Aofi%2Ffmt%3Akev%3Amtx%3Abook&rft.genre=unknown&rft.btitle=A+Place+to+Live+by+Vernon+Scannell&rft_id=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.happydragonspress.co.uk%2Fbibliography%2Fscannell.shtml&rfr_id=info%3Asid%2Fen.wikipedia.org%3AVernon+Scannell" class="Z3988"></span></span> </li> </ol></div></div> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading2"><h2 id="Sources">Sources</h2><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Vernon_Scannell&action=edit&section=11" title="Edit section: Sources"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <ul><li><link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1238218222"><cite id="CITEREFBiermanSmith2002" class="citation book cs1">Bierman, John; Smith, Colin (2002). <i>Alamein : War Without Hate</i>. 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