"This book is not about First World War Poets. Others may choose to revere them. Nor is it about mud, blood and poppycock, nor anything to do with Sassoon, Owen, Rosenberg, Gurney or Graves, except in commemoration. More than anything, I am not concerned with poets, or their war. My subject is the marking of the centenary and the way in which we experience it. All a poet can do today is remember."
This Thing of Memory is a new volume of poems by David Hynes, examining the impact of the First World War; its imprint on our memory and conscience, both personal and...
"This book is not about First World War Poets. Others may choose to revere them. Nor is it about mud, blood and poppycock, nor anything to do w...