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£8.99 paperback (2019) - ISBN 13: 9780571347087 | ISBN 10: 0571347088
The Armistice of 1918 brought ceasefire to the war on the Western Front, but ‘the Great War’ would not as hoped be ‘the war to end all wars’.
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In this affecting selection, the Poet Laureate, Carol Ann Duffy, guides us deep into the act a ... more
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£9.99 hardback (2019) - ISBN 13: 9781784874407 | ISBN 10: 178487440x
When Wilfred Owen was killed in the days before the Armistice in 1918, he left behind a shattering, truthful and indelible record of a soldier's experience of the First World War. His greatest war poetry has been collected, edited and introduced here ... more
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£5.99 paperback (2017) - ISBN 13: 9781786698001 | ISBN 10: 1786698005
Mohamed El-Bachiri is a driver on the Brussels metro rail system. He grew up and lives in the suburb of Molenbeek, notorious as the place from which a number of Belgian jihadis have come. He is also the husband of Loubna Lafquiri, the love of his lif ... more
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£12.99 paperback (2017) - ISBN 13: 9781784782085 | ISBN 10: 1784782084
A terrifying series of short poems by one of the world’s leading playwrights, set to images of World War II.
In this singular book written during World War Two, Bertolt Brecht presents a devastating visual and lyrical attack on war under mod ... more
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£9.95 paperback (2015) - ISBN 13: 9781780372785 | ISBN 10: 1780372787
Choman Hardi's Considering the Women explores the equivocal relationship between immigrants and their homeland - the constant push and pull - as well as the breakdown of an intermarriage, and the plight of women in an aggressive patriarchal society a ... more
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£8.95 paperback (2015) - ISBN 13: 9780993149023 | ISBN 10: 0993149022
Michael Rosen is one of our best-loved and writers for children. He has written and edited over 140 books, including contemporary primary-school classics like Mind Your Own Business, Wouldn’t You Like to Know, Mustard, Custard, Grumble Belly and Grav ... more
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£16.99 paperback (2015) - ISBN 13: 9781408865736 | ISBN 10: 1408865734
Between 2011 and 2014 PJ Harvey and Seamus Murphy set out on a series of journeys together to Kosovo, Afghanistan, and Washington DC. Harvey collected words, Murphy collected pictures, and together they have created an extraordinary chronicle of our ... more
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£9.99 paperback (2015) - ISBN 13: 9781843915515 | ISBN 10: 1843915510
I looked at his thin, aged face / Each line represented a massacre / Each wrinkle, a dead son / Each groove, a year of occupation.
Poems for Palestine was launched as a project aiming to collect together verse written by the people of Palestine, ... more
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£8.99 paperback (2014) - ISBN 13: 9780571315574 | ISBN 10: 0571315577
Pink Mist is a verse-drama about three young soldiers from Bristol who are deployed to Afghanistan. School friends still in their teens, Arthur, Hads and Taff each have their own reasons for enlisting. Within a short space of time they return to the ... more
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£8.99 paperback (2014) - ISBN 13: 9780198703204 | ISBN 10: 0198703201
'What passing-bells for these who die as cattle?'
The First World War produced an extraordinary flowering of poetic talent, from poets whose words commemorate the conflict as enduringly as monuments in stone. Their poems have come to express ... more
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£14.99 hardback (2014) - ISBN 13: 9781781721728 | ISBN 10: 1781721726
Poet Deryn Rees-Jones and artist Charlote Hodes have created a unique approach to the life of Helen Thomas, and through her to the women, and children, left behind by the fatalities of war. Helen Thomas was widowed when her husband the war poet Edwar ... more
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£12.99 paperback (2013) - ISBN 13: 9780199971954 | ISBN 10: 0199971951
Winner of both the National Book Award and the National Book Critics Circle Award and named by the Modern Library one of the twentieth century's 100 Best Non-Fiction Books, Paul Fussell's The Great War and Modern Memory was universally acclaimed on p ... more
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£15.00 paperback (2012) - ISBN 13: 9781852249465 | ISBN 10: 1852249463
Come On Everybody brings together poems from a dozen collections published by Adrian Mitchell over five decades, from Poems (1964) to Tell Me Lies (2008).
His poetry’s simplicity, clarity, passion and humour show his allegiance to a vital, p ... more
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£8.99 paperback (2011) - ISBN 13: 9780141182070 | ISBN 10: 0141182075
This new selection brings together the poetry of three of the most distinctive and moving voices to emerge from the First World War.
Here are the controlled passion and rich metaphors of Wilfred Owen's celebrated verses such as 'Anthem for ... more
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£9.95 paperback (2010) - ISBN 13: 9781852248765 | ISBN 10: 1852248769
Shortlisted for the 2010 T.S. Eliot Prize
Brian Turner's first book of poems, Here, Bullet, was a harrowing, first-hand account of the Iraq War by a soldier-poet. In Phantom Noise he pumps up the volume as he faces and tries to deal with the ... more
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£8.99 paperback (2010) - ISBN 13: 9781844084142 | ISBN 10: 1844084140
Perhaps some day the sun will shine again,And I shall see that still the skies are blue,And feel once more I do not live in vain,Although bereft of You... So wrote twenty-two-year-old Vera Brittain, mouring the loss of her fiance Roland Leighton on t ... more
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£9.99 paperback (2009) - ISBN 13: 9780954848262 | ISBN 10: 0954848268
Bernard Kops is one of Britain's most celebrated and prolific authors. His new collection, This Room in the Sunlight includes over forty recent unpulished poems, together with most of his best poetry from his long writing years.
His poems are witt ... more
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£8.95 paperback (2008) - ISBN 13: 9781904634584 | ISBN 10: 1904634583
The poems in this volume were written in response to three anniversaries relating to three separate conflicts. Told from the point of view of an English trader working in the North Tower of the World Trade Centre, the poem-film Out of the Blue ... more
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£18.95 paperback (2008) - ISBN 13: 9781857548761 | ISBN 10: 1857548760
Valentine Ackland is best known as the lover of poet Sylvia Townsend Warner, with whom she collaborated on Whether a Dove or a Seagull (1934). She was a distinguished poet in her own right, however, and enjoyed popular success during the 1930s. Consi ... more
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£15.00 paperback (2007) - ISBN 13: 9781852247881 | ISBN 10: 1852247886
Mahmoud Darwish was the poetic voice of the Palestinian people. One of the most acclaimed contemporary poets in the Arab world, he was also a prominent spokesman for human rights who has spent most of his life in exile.
In his early work, the fe ... more
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£7.00 paperback (2007) - ISBN 13: 9781873226872 | ISBN 10: 187322687x
In her tenth collection, Gladys Mary Coles brings together her poems about war and its effects – major themes throughout her work. She ranges across the centuries, from the Roman invasion of Britain to the 2005 terrorist bombings in London, with a sp ... more
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£7.99 paperback (2007) - ISBN 13: 9781905192274 | ISBN 10: 1905192274
Our mothers and fathers
fought the thugs who came totorment them on thestreets.They organised in their places ofwork against magnateswho were pouring milk down mines, shooting minerskilling Afghans and hobnobbing withHitler... (from Fighters for ... more
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£8.99 paperback (2006) - ISBN 13: 9780141181905 | ISBN 10: 0141181907
This anthology reflects the diversity of voices it contains: the poems are arranged thematically and the themes reflect the different experiences of war not just for the soldiers but for those left behind. This is what makes this volume more accessib ... more
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£7.99 paperback (2004) - ISBN 13: 9780571207251 | ISBN 10: 0571207251
In this series, a contemporary poet selects and introduces a poet of the past. By their choice of poems and by the personal and critical reactions they express in their prefaces, the editors offer insights into their own work as well as providing an ... more
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£10.95 paperback (0000) - ISBN 13: 9781852248437 | ISBN 10: 1852248432
Tell Me Lies is a rampaging last collection by the late and much lamented Shadow Poet Laureate. The title-poem is a 21st-century remix of his celebrated anti-war poem, ‘To Whom It May Concern (Tell me lies about Vietnam)’, first performed at the anti ... more
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