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Ten War Poems, Paperback / softback Book

Ten War Poems Paperback / softback

Edited by Sir Andrew Motion

Paperback / softback

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The poetry of the First World War is deeply ingrained in our national consciousness. Wilfred Owen, Siegfried Sassoon, Edward Thomas and their contemporaries are tirelessly anthologised, pored over in classrooms and justly celebrated. The world has not, though, left the horrors of war a century behind us, in the mud-mired trenches of the Western Front. This slim but powerful collection, incisively edited by former Laureate Andrew Motion, assembles thought-provoking verses dating from the first millennium to the present day in which international and individual voices address – and give new and poignant perspectives on – conflict. These poems link to the oldest songs of war (Alice Oswald’s ‘Memorial’), give quietly radical perspectives on the hollow fury of battle (Miroslav Holub’s ‘The fly’) and capture the strange, mad elation of combat (Whitman’s ‘The Artilleryman’s Vision’). The mournful atmosphere of Li Bai’s ‘Lament of the Frontier Guard’ and Wilfred Owen’s ‘The Send-Off’ contrast with the black and scatological Tommy humour of ‘That Shit Shute’. Here are meditations on the enemy (Keith Douglas’s ‘Vergissmeinnicht’), the veteran (Yusef Komunyakaa’s ‘Facing It’), the bereaved mother (Motion’s own, heartbreaking poem ‘The Gardener’ with its grief-flooded pauses) and the innocent civilians pinned under a fiery sky (Stevie Smith’s ‘I Remember’).

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