Hauntingly Powerful. War Poetry You Will Never Forget. When we say "war poetry" today, the sort of writing that comes to mind is a that of Rupert Brookes Wilfred Owen, Siegfried Sassoon and the other great writers of the first world war. It conjures up images of mud, wire and slaughter on a horrific scale but the nature of war has changed. The best war poetry is exceptionally powerful and Myers taps into a vein of thought...