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Title: The Hundred Years' War: Modern War Poems
Publisher: Bloodaxe Books Ltd
Publication Date: 2014
Language: English
ISBN 10: 1780371004
ISBN 13: 9781780371009
Binding: Paperback
Condition: Good

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War never ends. There have been two world wars since 1914 lasting for ten years, but wars have continued for a hundred years since then in many parts of the world: wars between nations, tribes and factions, wars over religion and beliefs, wars fought for land or oil or history or power, civil wars, political wars, and the Cold War when the West remained on a war-footing while supposedly at peace.

This anthology presents poems from a hundred years of war by poets writing as combatants on opposite sides, as victims or anguished witnesses. It chronicles times of war and conflict from the trenches of the Somme through the Spanish Civil War to the horrors of the Second World War, Hiroshima and the Holocaust; and in Korea, the Middle East, Vietnam, Ireland, the Balkans, Iraq and Afghanistan and other so-called theatres of war. There are poems from years when the world was threatened by all-out nuclear war and more recent poems written in response to international terrorism.

Where possible, the poems from each war or conflict are presented chronologically in terms of when they were written or set, building up a picture of what individual poets from different nations were experiencing at the same time, either on the same battlegrounds or in other parts of the world (including the home front), with, for example, British, French and German poets all writing of shared experiences in opposite trenches during the five-month Battle of the Somme.

At different stages of each war there are also poets responding events in their own countries. For example, in just one three-month period, from August to November 1944, Polish poets join the Warsaw Uprising, Mikl�s Radn�ti is herded on a forced march from Serbia to Hungary (where he is killed), other Hungarian poets witness deportations to camps, Dylan Thomas voices the anguish of Londoners under V-bomb attack, and Louis Simpson is a foot soldier caught up in the chaotic Battle of the Bulge.

Poets in the anthology include: Anna Akhmatova, Al-Saddiq Al-Raddi, Yehuda Amichai, Doug Anderson, Guillaume Apollinaire, W.H. Auden, Ingeborg Bachmann, Tomica Bajsic, Mourid Barghouti, Aleksandr Blok, Johannes Bobrowski, Eavan Boland, Sargon Boulus, Bertolt Brecht, Joseph Brodsky, Rupert Brooke, Michael Casey, Paul Celan, William Childress, Jean Cocteau, David Connolly, Tony Conran, John Cornford, Mahmoud Darwish, Bruce Dawe, Keith Douglas, Pham Tien Duat, Helen Dunmore, Paul Durcan, Ilya Ehrenburg, Hans Magnus Enzensberger, James Fenton, Carolyn Forch�, Erich Fried, Mitsuharu Kaneko, Yusef Komunyakaa, Federico Garc�a Lorca, Zaqtan Ghassan, Albert-Paul Granier, Ivor Gurney, Golan Haji, Choman Hardi, Tony Harrison, Seamus Heaney, Hamish Henderson, Miguel Hern�ndez, Zbigniew Herbert, John Hewitt, Henry-Jacques, Georg Heym, Geoffrey Hill, Miroslav Holub, Peter Huchel, Randall Jarrell, David Jones, Mitsuharu Kaneko, Brendan Kennelly, Ko Un, Ku Sang, G�nter Kunert, Reiner Kunze, Ivan V. Lalic, Denise Levertov, Primo Levi, Alun Lewis, Alfred Lichtenstein, Michael Longley, Robert Lowell, Gwendolyn MacEwen, Thomas McGrath, Louis MacNeice, Antonio Machado, Derek Mahon, Khaled Mattawa, Semezdin Mehmedinovic, Andr�s Mezei, Dunya Mikhail, Eugenio Montale, Andrew Motion, Zvonimir Mrkonjic, Paul Muldoon, Inge M�ller, Giang Nam, Pablo Neruda, Naomi Shihab Nye, Dan O'Brien, Wilfred Owen, Dan Pagis, C�cile P�rin, Mikl�s Radn�ti, Herbert Read, Isaac Rosenberg, Alan Ross, Tadeusz R�zewicz, Nelly Sachs, Nobuyuki Saga, Ku Sang, Toge Sankichi, Siegfried Sassoon, Aharon Shabtai, Jo Shapcott, Owen Sheers, James Simmons, Louis Simpson, Charles Sorley, Stephen Spender, Leon Stroinski, Anna Swir, Wis awa Szymborska, Jean Tardieu, Edward Thomas, Brian Turner, Giuseppe Ungaretti, Istv�n Vas, Marko Vesovic, Bruce Weigl, W.B. Yeats, Yevgeny Yevtushenko, Fahrudin Zilkic.

About the Author

Neil Astley is editor of Bloodaxe Books, which he founded in 1978. His books include novels, poetry collections and anthologies, most notably the Bloodaxe Staying Alive trilogy: Staying Alive (2002), Being Alive (2004) and Being Human (2011), along with Essential Poems from the Staying Alive Trilogy (2012). His other anthologies include Passionfood: 100 love poems; Do Not Go Gentle: poems for funerals; Earth Shattering: ecopoems, Funny Ha-Ha, Funny Peculiar: a book of strange & comic poems; The Hundred Years' War: modern war poems; Soul Food [with Pamela Robertson-Pearce], and the DVD-book In Person: 30 Poets lmed by Pamela Robertson-Pearce. He has published two novels, The End of My Tether, which was shortlisted for the Whitbread First Novel Award, and The Sheep Who Changed the World.

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