1914 : poetry remembers
Duffy, Carol Ann2013
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The First World War holds a unique place in the nation's history. To mark the centenary of the First World War in 2014, Duffy has engaged the most eminent poets of the present to choose the writing from the Great War that touched them most profoundly
Main title:
1914 : poetry remembers / edited by Carol Ann Duffy
Author:
Imprint:
London Faber 2013
Collation:
123 p.
Notes:
Includes index.
Contents:
An Unseen / Carol Ann Duffy -- The Send-off / Wilfred Owen -- After the News / Paula Meehan -- July 1914 / Anna Akhmatova -- High Wood / Sean Borodale -- Hanging on the Old Barbed Wire / Anonymous -- The Testament of Jean Cocteau / Rachael Boast -- Calligram for Madeleine / Guillaume Apollinaire -- `We bid Farewell to a Whole era' / Alice Oswald -- The Little Auto / Guillaume Apollinaire -- The Duration / Helen Dunmore -- From Diaries 1915--1918 / Cynthia Asquith -- Gottfried Benn, c. 1916 / Michael Hofmann -- From Epilogue / Gottfried Benn -- The Crowded Earth / Polly Clark -- From Testament of Youth / Vera Brittain -- Dromedaries and Dung Beetles / Paul Muldoon -- The Soldier / Rupert Brooke -- Afterbirth / Clare Pollard -- Afterwards / Margaret Postgate Cole -- A Munster Fusilier on his Eightieth Birthday / Theo Dorgan -- A Dead Boche / Robert Graves -- Stopping with a bicycle on a hill above Stroud, thinking of Ivor Gurney / Adam Horowitz -- Ballad of the Three Spectres / Ivor Gurney -- Avalon / Simon Armitage -- First Time In / Ivor Gurney -- The Jumps / Alan Jenkins -- From Letters to Kate Lechmere / T. E. Hulme -- Migration / Bernard ODonoghue -- Serbia / Francis Ledwidge -- Boy-Soldier / Michael Longley -- `We had a young volunteer here' / Tom Mcalindon -- Armistice / David Harsent -- `Such courage and nerve as I possessed' / John McCauley -- Redacted / Blake Morrison -- Mackintosh Recruiting / Ewart Alan -- Bandages / John Agard -- `I was wounded at Mametz Wood' / Albert Marshall -- March 2013 / Ann Gray -- May, 1915 / Charlotte Mew -- The Calling / Daljit Nagra -- The Gift of India / Sarojini Naidu -- Futility / Billy Collins -- Futility / Wilfred Owen -- A century later / Imtiaz Dharker -- Anthem for Doomed Youth / Wilfred Owen -- April Fools Day / Elaine Feinstein -- Break of Day in the Trenches / Isaac Rosenberg -- Birds of the Western Front / Ruth Padel -- From Birds on the Western Front / Saki -- Bantam / Jackie Kay -- Survivors / Siegfried Sassoon -- A Moment of Reflection / Andrew Motion -- `I am making this statement' / Siegfried Sassoon -- Oranges / Vicki Feaver -- Orange In / Gertrude Stein -- Any Ordinary Morning / Julia Copus -- In a Field / Seamus Heaney -- As the Teams head-brass / Edward Thomas -- For a Fatherless Son, For a Fatherless Daughter / Deryn Rees-Jones -- From World Without End / Helen Thomas -- Signs and Signals / Roy Fisher -- Grodek / Georg Trakl -- At Stockwell Tube / Grace Nichols -- Clear Sky / Giuseppe Ungaretti -- Eisteddfod of the Black Chair / Gillian Clarke -- War / Hedd Wyn -- Three Men / Ruth Fainlight -- The Second Coming / W. B. Yeats -- Last Post / Carol Ann Duffy
ISBN:
9780571302147 (hbk)
Dewey class:
821.908 NIN
Local class:
821.908
Language:
English
BRN:
2560
More Information:
| Location | Collection | Call number | Status/Desc |
|---|---|---|---|
| Penrith | Nonfiction | 821.908 NIN | hbkAvailable |
| Penrith | Nonfiction | 821.908 NIN | hbkAvailable |