War poet
By: Jon Stallworthy
Publisher: Carcanet
Published: 2014
Place of publication: Manchester, England
Language: eng
Number of pages: 77
ISBN-13: 9781847774606; 9781847774583; 9781847772442
Copyright date: 2014
Subjects: War poetry; English Poets; Biography; Authorship; FICTION; General
Description: Jon Stallworthy wrote his first poems during school days shadowed by the Second World War and a mother's memories of a brother and friends killed in the First. At school he was introduced to the poems of Wilfred Owen, whose biography he would later write, and to those of others who would be represented in his Oxford Books of War Poetry. Many of the most anthologized and ambitious of his own poems-""No Ordinary Sunday, "" ""A Letter from Berlin, "" ""The Nutcracker, "" ""A Poem about Poems about Vietnam""--Respond to wars that scarred the 20th century. A recent uncollected poem, from which t.
Table of contents: title: Cover; About the Author; Title Page; Copyright; Dedication; Acknowledgements; Contents; No Ordinary Sunday; Home Thoughts from Abroad 1955; A Round; War Story; The Anzac Sonata; Apollinaire Trepanned; Edward Thomas's Fob Watch; War Poet; Goodbye to Wilfred Owen; War Song of the Embattled Finns; A Letter from Berlin; Wiedersehen; At St Gennys; The Nutcracker; A poem about Poems About Vietnam; A Portrait of Robert Capa; Kathmandu-Kodari; Skyhorse; Self-Portrait in Snow; Notes.