To the War Poets

by John Greening

In a sequence of verse letters, John Greening sends dispatches across the decades, looking back over the century since the outbreak of the First World War. He addresses the war poets directly, making connections yet always aware of distance, and explores "Englishness," but also--in his translations from Heym, Trakl, Stadler, and Stramm--provides an alternative perspective. From the discovery of the Sutton Hoo burial just before the start of the Second...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1906188084
• ISBN13: 9781906188085
• Release Date: December 2013
• Publisher: Oxford Poets
• Length: 80 Pages
• Weight: 0.20 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.2" x 5.6" x 8.5"