Box of Chalks : a sequence of poems based on the conscription of Polish boys into the German Army under the Volksliste
Journal: ChiPrints (University of Chichester)
Year: 2013

This creative thesis comprises a book length collection of poems entitled Box Of Chalks, and an accompanying prose commentary exploring issues of research, drafting and the forming of a narrative sequence of poetry. The book of poems is based on the experience of Polish boys and men forcibly conscripted into the German Army by National Decree, 4th March 1941. This enforced conscription remains a little acknowledged fact which I discovered is still refuted in some Polish communities. The poems ar