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To the War Poets

  • ISBN-13: 9781906188085
  • Publisher: CARCANET PRESS
    Imprint: OXFORDPOETS
  • By Johen Greening
  • Price: AUD $24.99
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  • Local release date: 20/06/2014
  • Format: Paperback (214.00mm X 136.00mm) 86 pages Weight: 120g
  • Categories: Poetry by individual poets [DCF]
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In To the War Poets John Greening sends dispatches across the decades. In a sequence of verse letters he addresses the poets of the First World War directly, making connections yet always aware of distance: No larks, / just the passing of traffic. Greening explores Englishness, but also, in his translations from German poets, goes beyond it. From the discovery of the Sutton Hoo burial in 1939 to the security forces shut-down of Heathrow airport in 2006, the presence or threat of conflict underlies Greenings precise, unsentimental writing.
John Greening has reviewed for the Times Literary Supplement since the 1990s and has published 12 poetry collections, as well as critical works such as Poetry Masterclass and studies of the First World War Poets, Yeats, Hardy, and Edward Thomas. He is the recipient of the Alexandria Poetry Prize and the Bridport Prize.
'"So to conclude calamity in rest." In his powerful new collection, John Greening opens lines of communication with poets of the Great War, bridging a century with heart-work of immediacy, economy and humanity.' --Penelope Shuttle 'Delightfully alert to connections and intersections, to historical ironies... [Greening is] a serious (but never excessively solemn) poet, who cares about both 'facts' and ideas and makes his poetry out of the interpenetration of the two.' --Glyn Pursglove
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