War never ends. There have been two world wars since 1914 lasting for ten years, but wars have continued for a hundred years since then in many parts of the world: wars between nations, tribes and factions, wars over religion and beliefs, wars fought...
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War never ends. There have been two world wars since 1914 lasting for ten years, but wars have continued for a hundred years since then in many parts of the world: wars between nations, tribes and factions, wars over religion and beliefs, wars fought for land or oil or history or power, civil wars, political wars, and the Cold War when the West remained on a war-footing while supposedly at peace. This anthology presents poems from a hundred years of war by poets writing as combatants on opposite sides, or as victims or anguished witnesses. It chronicles times of war and
Cover; Description; Title Page; CONTENTS; EDITORIAL NOTE; INTRODUCTION; Grass; Inscription for a War; The Horses; The Visitor; FIRST WORLD WAR | 1914-1918; War; MCMXIV; All the hills and vales along; Leaving for the Front; Prayer Before Battle; The Soldier; Clearing-Station; Wildfire; Squall; Nocturne; Rouen; At the Beginning of the War; Wartime April; In Flanders Fields; When you see millions of the mouthless dead; All Souls' Day; Execution; Desire; The Falling Leaves; War Marvel; Nocturnal Landscape; Vigil; This is no case of petty right or wrong; Rain; Then my guide in the blue overcoat…
from Trench PoemThe Deserter; In the Pink; The Kite; A Working Party; As the team's head brass; The Silent One; God! How I hate you, you young cheerful men!; Break of Day in the Trenches; from In Parenthesis; A Night Attack; Counter-Attack; The Rivers; The Hero; The Sentry; Base Details; The Rear-Guard; Attack; The General; Louse Hunting; Returning, we hear the Larks; Dead Man's Dump; French Soldiers Mutiny - 1917; The women say…; Medals; A Soldier's Declaration; Still Life; The Mass Grave; The Dead-Beat; Pluck; Anthem for Doomed Youth; from Requiem for the Dead of Europe
from Kneeshaw Goes to WarPillbox; Dulce et Decorum Est; Insensibility; Exposure; The Deserter; To His Love; An Irish Airman Foresees His Death; Strange Meeting; The Send-Off; The Bleeding-Heart Dove and the Fountain; Gamecocks; Absolution; Dead Men with Masks; By the Side of the Road; from THE T.E. LAWRENCE POEMS; The Lament of the Demobilised; Præmaturi; Afterwards; An Equal Voice; Soldiering On; IRELAND | 1916-1923; Easter 1916; Sixteen Dead Men; Imperial Measure; Nineteen sixteen, or The terrible beauty; from Nineteen Hundred and Nineteen; Reprisals; The Troubles, 1922
An Ulsterman in England remembersGravel; from Meditations in Time of Civil War; Yeats in Civil War; from The Man and the Echo; from Wall; A Disused Shed in Co. Wexford; SPANISH CIVIL WAR | 1936-1939; from Mediterranean; from Fable of Three Friends to be Sung in Rounds; The Crime Was in Granada; I'm Explaining a Few Things; We're Going On!; A Letter from Aragon; The wounded man; The Tolerance of Crows; In Memory of Charles Donnelly; Ultima Ratio Regum; David Guest; Wings Overhead; Bombing Casualties in Spain; Bombers; Death Sentence Commuted to Thirty Years; Sunset
18 July 1936 - 18 July 1938from Autumn Journal; War; Spain. December 1936; SECOND WORLD WAR | 1939-1945; A Thousand Killed; Our Town Is Burning; The Hitler Spring; from A German War Primer; from In Time of War; from Autumn Journal; Epitaph on a Tyrant; September 1, 1939; from 1940; from Finland 1940; from Ode Written during the Battle of Dunkirk, May 1940; The Retreat from Dunkirk; Listening to Distant Guns; All Day It Has Rained…; Survivors; Seaman, 1941; Requiem; August 1941; Ascension; How Did They Kill My Grandmother?; Babiy Yar; from Wind of War; I Don't Remember Him; The Game
