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0224097423 
Paperback 
Year: 2013
Language: English
Interest category: Literature & languages
Media class: Paperback
Content type: Poetry
Publisher: Jonathan Cape
Resource type: Physical
Note: It has been over a decade since Henry Shukman published his award-winning first collection, 'In Doctor No's Garden'. Now, in his greatly anticipated second collection, he explores a little-known piece of Jewish history, in a sequence of poems that forms the centre-piece of this book. General adult
96 p. ; 20 cm (pbk)
0349121435 
Paperback
Year: 2012
Language: English
Interest category: Literature & languages
Media class: Paperback
Publisher: Abacus
Resource type: Physical
Note: This title paints a full picture of the wider world after the First World War in which poets such as Rupert Brooke and Wilfred Owen moved, getting away from the stereotype of the doomed youth in the Flanders mud and relating them to a particular historical, social and cultural moment in the evolution of British society. General adult
343 p., [16] p. of plates, ill., ports. ; 20 cm (pbk)
0413595706 
Paperback
Year: 1990
Language: English
Interest category: Literature & languages
Media class: Paperback
Edition: Revised ed
Publisher: Methuen
Resource type: Physical
Note: First published 1976
0141182075 
Paperback
Year: 2011
Language: English
Interest category: Literature & languages
Media class: Paperback
Content type: Poetry
Publisher: Penguin
Resource type: Physical
Note: This selection brings together the poetry of three of the most distinctive and moving voices to emerge from the First World War. General adult
Title series: Penguin classics
liv, 184 p. ; 20 cm (pbk)
0521727898 
Paperback
Year: 2008
Language: English
Interest category: Literature & languages
Media class: Paperback
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Resource type: Physical
Note: From Homer to Heaney, the voices of men & women have seldom been more piercing, more poignant, than in time of conflict. For 50 years, Jon Stallworthy has been attuned to such voices. In 'Survivors' Songs' he explores a series of poetic encounters with war, with essays on Rupert Brooks, Siegfried Sassoon, Wilfred Owen, & others. Tertiary
xiii, 226 p. ; 22 cm (pbk)
0571221203 
Paperback 
Year: 2004
Language: English
Interest category: Literature & languages
Media class: Paperback
Publisher: Faber
Resource type: Physical
Note: The First World War produced some of the most haunting and memorable poetry of our age. In this anthology, the Poet Laureate Andrew Motion guides us through both the horror and the pity of that conflict, from the trenches of the Western Front to reflections from our own age. General adult
xv, 171 p. ; 20 cm (pbk)
0571207251 
Paperback
Year: 2004
Language: English
Interest category: Literature & languages
Media class: Paperback
Publisher: Faber
Resource type: Physical
Note: Wilfred Owen is perhaps the most remembered of the First World War poets, writing some of the most powerful denouncements of the horrors and hypocricies of war. Here, Jon Stallworthy selects his favourite poems. General adult
Title series: Poet-to-poet series
xix, 66 p. ; 20 cm (pbk)
0582966027 
Paperback
Year: 1996
Language: English
Interest category: Literature & languages
Media class: Paperback
Publisher: Longman
Resource type: Physical
Title series: York notes
0750945214 
Hardback
Year: 2006
Language: English
Interest category: Literature & languages
Media class: Hardback
Publisher: Sutton
Resource type: Physical
Note: The poetry of the First World War has determined our perception of the war itself. The poetry gathered together in this volume has been drawn from newspapers and journals, trench and hospital magazines, gift books, postcards, and an illicit manuscript magazine put together by jailed conscientious objectors. General adult
xviii, 454 p., ill. ; 24 cm (hbk)
0952896907 
Paperback
Year: 1996
Interest category: Literature & languages
Media class: Paperback
Publisher: Saxon
Resource type: Physical
0701161264 
Paperback
Year: 1994
Language: English
Interest category: Literature & languages
Media class: Paperback
Publisher: Chatto & Windus
Resource type: Physical
057203167X 
Hardback
Year: 2005
Language: English
Interest category: Literature & languages
Media class: Hardback
Publisher: Arcturus Publisher
Resource type: Physical
Note: In this collection of war poetry, Brian Busby has selected works from the poets killed in action during the First World War, starting with Rupert Brooke in 1915 and ending with the tragic loss of Wilfred Owen only seven days before the end of the conflict.
192p, col. ill. ; 180mm (hbk)
0571315798 
Hardback
Year: 2014
Language: English
Interest category: Literature & languages
Media class: Hardback
Edition: [New edition]
Content type: Poetry
Publisher: Faber & Faber
Resource type: Physical
Note: This edition originally published: 1961 David Jones presents poetry about the experience of one soldier in the war of 1914-18. He also looks at many other things such as Roman Britain, the Arthurian Legend and diverse matters which are given association by the mind of the writer. General adult
Title series: Poets of the Great War
xv, 224 pages ; 21 cm (hbk)
1782431489 
Hardback
Year: 2013
Language: English
Interest category: Literature & languages
Media class: Hardback
Edition: New edition
Content type: Poetry
Publisher: Michael O'Mara Books
Resource type: Physical
Note: Previous edition: 1990 The Great War of 1914-18 and the Second World War of 1939-45, told in the words of some of the most immediate and moving poetry in the language - a tribute to the triumph of the human spirit over the desolation and waste of war. General adult
192 pages, illustrations (black and white) ; 24 cm (hbk)
1907176101 
Hardback
Year: 2010
Language: English
Interest category: Literature & languages
Media class: Hardback
Edition: Gift ed
Content type: Poetry
Publisher: Trans Atlantic
Resource type: Physical
Note: Some of the most beautiful poetry ever written has come from the horror of the trenches. Represented in this text are poems dashed off in the full awfulness of the battlefield, as well as those honed with the terrible benefit of hindsight. General adult
192 p., ill. ; 17 cm (hbk)
1844084132 
Hardback
Year: 2008
Language: English
Interest category: Literature & languages
Media class: Hardback
Content type: Mixed format
Publisher: Virago
Resource type: Physical
Note: This collection of Vera Brittain's poetry and prose commemorates the men she loved - her fiancé, her brother and two close friends - who served and died in the First World War. General adult
xxxvii, 233 p., ill. ; 20 cm (hbk)
1844082253 
Paperback
Year: 2005
Language: English
Interest category: Literature & languages
Media class: Paperback
Publisher: Virago
Resource type: Physical
Note: This is the first anthology of women war poets for over 60 years. Many of the poems come out of direct experiences of nursing the victims of trench warfare, or the pain of lovers, brothers, sons, lost.
192p ; 200mm (pbk)
1845292219 
Paperback
Year: 2005
Language: English
Interest category: Literature & languages
Media class: Paperback
Publisher: Constable
Resource type: Physical
Note: Hundreds of what came to be known as 'the war poets' saw their work in print between 1914 and 1918; others - including some of the best - were not published until afterwards. In this collection Stallworthy has gathered some of the most moving poetry born out of the horror of the trenches. Originally published: 2002
192p, ill. (some col.) (pbk)
1845298888 
Paperback
Year: 2008
Language: English
Interest category: Literature & languages
Media class: Paperback
Content type: Poetry
Publisher: Constable
Resource type: Physical
Note: With over 250 poems from the First World War, this anthology delivers an extraordinary record of the passionate feelings and terrible experiences of the war to end all wars. General adult
xxxvii, 346 p. ; 20 cm (pbk)
144722616X 
Hardback
Year: 2013
Language: English
Interest category: Literature & languages
Media class: Hardback
Content type: Poetry
Publisher: Macmillan Children's Books
Resource type: Physical
Note: Published in association with the Imperial War Museum Published in association with the IWM A moving and powerful collection of poems written by soldiers, nurses, mothers, sweethearts and family and friends who experienced the war from different standpoints. It records the early excitement and patriotism, the bravery, friendship and loyalty of the soldiers, and heartbreak, disillusionment and regret as the war went on to damage a generation. Ages 5 - 12
xiii, 189 pages ; 21 cm (hbk)
075249208X 
Paperback
Year: 2013
Language: English
Interest category: Literature & languages
Media class: Paperback
Content type: Poetry
Publisher: The History Press
Resource type: Physical
Note: This title features a 'Tommies' view' of the World War One campaign, revealing the grim resignation and revulsion which generally prevailed amongst the lower military ranks. Each poem is accompanied by a brief background on the author and notes on the battles in which they fought. General adult
160 pages, 8 unnumbered pages of plates, illustrations (black and white, and colour) ; 20 cm (pbk)