Literary biography detailing the colourful life of poet Vernon Scannell, with insights from his wife and partners, extracts from his letters and intimate diaries, and previously unpublished poems This uncompromising literary biography tells the story of a wounded D-Day veteran, a deserter, a violent drunk, a loving father who abandoned his first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 the story of a poet.
