monologue, his work is drenched in humanity. It resounds with memories." Scannell also wrote the verse narration for BBC Television film A House that Died. He also received a special award from the Wilfred Owen Association "in recognition of his contribution to war poetry". Scannell's best-known book of war poetry is Walking Wounded (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." Scannell is also the author of a memoir, The Tiger and the Rose (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, Christopher Logue, author of some of the best war poetry of the past half-century (in the form of versions of the Iliad), spent two years in a military prison, on a charge of handling stolen pass books. What would Owen say? He'd say: Never trust the teller, trust the tale." Historian Martin Johnes has used Scannell's 1951 novel The Fight 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. Death Scannell spent the final years of his life living in Otley, West Yorkshire, where he died at his home at the age of 85 after a long illness. Works Poetry Graves and Resurrections (1948), poems The Wound and The Scar (Peter Nevill, 1953) A Mortal Pitch (Villiers, 1957), poems The Masks of Love (Putnam, 1960), poems A Sense of Danger (Putnam, 1962), poems New Poems 1962: A P. E. N. Anthology (Hutchinson, 1962), editor with Patricia Beer and Ted Hughes The Dividing Night (Putnam, 1962) Edward Thomas (1963) The Loving Game (1965), poems Walking Wounded – Poems 1962–65 (1965) Pergamon Poets 8 (1970), with Jon Silkin Epithets of War – Poems 1965–69 (Eyre & Spottiswoode, 1969) The Dangerous Ones (Elsevier, 1970) Mastering the Craft (Pergamon Press, 1970)