1914: Poetry Remembers

Carol Ann Duffy

• Publisher: Faber & Faber
• Year: 2013
• Topic: Literature
• eBook ISBN:
  9780571302161
• Subtopic: World War I
• Index: Literature

The First World War holds a unique place in the nation's history; the poetry it produced, a unique place in the nation's hearts. To mark the centenary of the First World War in 2014, the Poet Laureate, Carol Ann Duffy, has engaged the most eminent poets of the present to choose the writing from the Great War that touched them most profoundly: their choices are here in this powerful and moving assembly. But this anthology is more than a record of war writing. Carol Ann Duffy has commissioned these same poets of the present to look back across the past and write a poem of their own in response to the war to end all wars.

Whether as a reader your interest is in the Great War or the great war poets, or whether it is in the poetry of today, this anthology will hold a special place in your affections, as it remembers and recalls - a and through its commissioned work, renews and honours - the engagement between poetry and this terrible, unworldly of world conflicts.

Table of contents

• Cover
• Landing Page
• Title Page
• CONTENTS
• Introduction
• An Unseen
• The Send-off
• After the News
• July 1914
• High Wood
• Hanging on the Old Barbed Wire
• The Testament of Jean Cocteau
• Calligram for Madeleine (15 May 1915)
• ‘We bid farewell to a whole era’
• The Little Auto
• The Duration
• from Diaries 1915–1918
• Gottfried Benn, c.1916
• from Epilogue
• The Crowded Earth
• from Testament of Youth
• Dromedaries and Dung Beetles
• The Soldier
• Afterbirth
• Afterwards
• A Munster Fusilier on his Eightieth Birthday
• A Dead Boche
• Stopping with a bicycle on a hill above Stroud, thinking of Ivor Gurney
• Ballad of the Three Spectres
• Avalon
• First Time In
• The Jumps
• From Letters to Kate Lechmere
• Migration
• Serbia
• Boy-Soldier
• ‘We had a young volunteer here’
• Armistice
• ‘Such courage and nerve as I possessed’
• Redacted
• Recruiting
• Bandages
• ‘I was wounded at Mametz Wood’
• March 2013
• May, 1915
• The Calling
• The Gift of India
• Futility
• Futility
• A century later
• Anthem for Doomed Youth
• April Fools’ Day
• Break of Day in the Trenches
• Birds of the Western Front
• from Birds on the Western Front
• Bantam
• Survivors
• A Moment of Reflection
•  ‘I am making this statement’
• Oranges
• Orange In
• Any Ordinary Morning
• In a field
• As the team’s head-brass
• For a Fatherless Son, for a Fatherless Daughter
• from World Without End
• Signs and Signals
• Grodek
• At Stockwell Tube
• Clear Sky
• Eisteddfod of the Black Chair
• War
• Three Men
• The Second Coming
• Last Post
• ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS
• INDEX OF AUTHORS
• INDEX OF TITLES AND FIRST LINES
• About the Author
• By the Same Author
• Copyright