The Abandoned Soldier: Reflections of War – Mark Christmas, 2010
After an early career in the British Army, Mark Christmas began writing poetry to reflect his thoughts and experiences. This new collection was written over […]
War and Poetry
Women's poetry of the First World War – Nosheen Khan, 1988
Collection of poetry by women during the First World War.
The Poetry of War – James Anderson Winn, 2008
Poets from Homer to Bruce Springsteen have given voice to the intensity, horror, and beauty of war. The greatest war poets praise the victor while […]
Here, Bullet – Brian Turner, 2005
Adding his voice to the current debate about the US occupation of Iraq, in poems written in the tradition of such poets as Wilfred Owen, […]
Collected Poems 1944-1949 – Nelly Sachs (DIR LIB)
Nobel Prize-winning poet Nelly Sachs escaped Nazi Germany to Sweden, where she wrote these and other brilliant poems as a “mute outcry” to the Holocaust.
First World War Poems, chosen by Andrew Motion (GA LIB)
In this moving anthology, the Poet Laureate Andrew Motion guides us through the horror and the pity of the Great War, from the trenches of […]
The Waste Land – T. S. Eliot
The Waste Land, written by legendary author T.S. Eliot is widely considered to be one of the greatest books of all time. This great classic […]