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Great Britain, Faber and Faber Limited, 2003.
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| Description |
147pRed Spine
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| Summary/Abstract |
A collection of startling poems against war ever written - from an infamous last stand in Ancient Greece to the chemical warfare of the present day Gulf.
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| Contents |
For the Spartan Dead at Thermopylai - Simonides
'Some Saian sports my splendid shield' - Archilochus
'Success is counted sweetest' - Emily Dickinson
Dulce et Decorum Est - Wildred Owen
Ireland 1972 - Paul Durcan
'First they came for the Jews' - Martin Niemoller
O What is that Sound - W.H. Auden
'Some think a fleet' - Sappho
On Being Asked to Write a Poem Against the War in Vietnam - Hayden Carruth
Rain - Edward Thomas
Sophoclean - Seamus Heaney
An Irish Airman Forsees His Death - W.B. Yeats
Phrase Book - Jo Shapcott
The Drum - John Scott
How to Kill - Keith Douglas
I Remember - Stevie Smith
The Diameter of the Bomb - Yehuda Amichai
The General - Siegfried Sassoon
Mines - Bruce Weigl
from The Knight's Tale - Geoffrey Chaucer
Epitaph on an Army of Mercenaries - A.E. Housman
'next to of course god america i' - E.E. Cummings
Break of Day in the Trenches - Isaac Rosenberg
from Poem for the land - Mahmoud Darwish
What Were They Like? - Denise Levertov
Five Minutes after the Air Raid - Miroslav Holub
In Dark Times - Bertolt Brecht
' When you see millions of the mouthless dead' - Charles Hamilton Sorley
The Pacifist - Hilaire Belloc
Fall 1961 - Robert Lowell
The Soldier's Death - Anne Finch, Countess of Winchilsea
Cambodia - James Fenton
Conscientious Objector - Edna St Vincent Millay
Grass - Carl Sandburg
The Survivor - Tadeusz Rozewicz
A Bummer - Michael Casey
Epitaph for Mariana Gryphius - Andreas Gryphius
As You Say - D.J. Enright
Lament of the Frontier Guard - Li Po
from Epitaphs of the War 1914-1918 - Rudyard Kipling
From Trollope's Journal - Elizabeth Bishop
'Soldiers who wish to be a hero' - Anonymous
Six Young Men - Ted Hughes
from Poems to Czechoslovakia - Marina Tsvetaeva
A Refusal to Mourn the Death, by Fire, of a Child in London - Dylan Thomas
from America, America - Saadi Youssef
Report on Experience - Edmund Blunden
The Vote - Ralph Knevet
Vietnam - Clarence Major
from The Recruiting Serjeant - Isaac Bickerstaffe
Eisenhower's Visit to Franco, 1959 - James Wright
Penelope - Dorothy Parker
The Sorrow od Sarajevo - Goran Simic
The Death of the Ball Turret Gunner - Randall Jarrell
As Toilsome I Wander'd Virginia's Woods - Walt Whitman
The General's Property - Samih Al-Qasim
Newscast - Ian Hamilton
Dedication - Czeslaw Milosz
The Colonel - Carolyn Forche
Anti-War - Seiichi Nikuni
Raider's Dawn - Alun Lewis
The Horses - Edwin Muir
Futility - Wilfred Owen
Green Beret - Ho Thien
Essential Serbo-Croat - Ken Smith
American Football - Harold Pinter
At the Bomb Testing Site - William Stafford
The Fly - Miroslav Holub
Vergissmeinnicht - Keith Douglas
Waiting for the Barbarians - C.P. Cavafy
Familial - Jacques Prevert
August 6, 1945 - Alison Fell
from Fears in Solitude - Samuel Taylor Coleridge
Women, Children, Babies, Cows, Cats - Robert Lowell
If I Only Knew - Nelly Sachs
A Warrior's Lament - Nnamdi Olebara
To His Love - Ivor Gurney
Johnny, I Hardly Knew Ye - Anonymous
Prolonged Sonnet : When the Troops were Returning from Milan - Niccolo Degli Albizzi
'my sweet old etcetera' - E.E. Cummings
On Being Asked for a War Poem - W.B. Yeats
Seaman, 1941 - Molly Holden
War Has Been Given a Bad Name - Bertolt Brecht
Channel Firing - Thomas Hardy
'My Triumph lasted till the Drums' - Emily Dickinson
from Hugh Selwyn Mauberley - Ezra Pound
In Memoriam (Easter 1915) - Edward Thomas
Death Valley - Sorley Maclean
Suicide in the Trenches - Siegfried Sassoon
Testimony - Seamus Heaney
Facing It - Yusef Komunyakaa
Shiloh - Herman Melville
The Fury of Aerial Bombardment - Richard Eberhart
from Amours de Voyage, Canto II - A.H. Clough
MCMXI - Philip Larkin
Wounds - Michael Longley
Shema - Primo Levi
September I, 1939 - W.H. Auden
August 1914 - Isaac Rosenberg
History - John Burnside
Night in Al-Hamra - Saadi Youssef
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| Standard Number |
0571220347 Pb.
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