War Poet
“War Poet” by Jon Stallworthy, published by Carcanet in 2014, is a collection of poetry that reflects on the profound impact of war on personal and collective memory. This edition comprises 76 pages and is presented in English. The poems are shaped by Stallworthy’s early experiences during the Second World War and his reflections on the First World War, drawing inspiration from poets like Wilfred Owen, whose works are also featured in his anthologies.
Readers will find a range of poems that engage with the themes of history, conflict, and the human experience of war. Stallworthy’s writing includes both his own well-known pieces and a recent uncollected poem that lends the collection its title, exploring the lasting scars of the 20th century’s wars. The anthology encompasses various perspectives on the impact of warfare, making it a significant contribution to the discourse on poetry related to World War I and World War II.
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Jon Stallworthy wrote his first poems during school days shadowed by the Second World War and a mother’s memories of a brother and friends killed in the First. At school he was introduced to the poems of Wilfred Owen, whose biography he would later write, and to those of others who would be represented in his Oxford Books of War Poetry. Many of the most anthologized and ambitious of his own poems–“No Ordinary Sunday,” “A Letter from Berlin,” “The Nutcracker,” “A Poem about Poems about Vietnam”–respond to wars that scarred the 20th century. A recent uncollected poem, from which the book takes its title, sheds piercing light on the dark aftermath of the conflict so bitterly remembered today as “the war to end wars.”
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