Product Description: In a wide-ranging and compelling account of the life of metrical and free verse in the twentieth century, poet and critic Jon Silkin deepens our understanding of the way poetry works on us. He begins from the premiss that two modes of verse, free and metrical, engage the creative energies of poetry now, creating a rich, fertile environment capable of yielding work valuable to poetry itself and to the society which has given it life...read more

Product Description: Jon Silkin died in November 1997. He had completed a new volume of poems which he called "Making a Republic". The title relates to his first, most celebrated book, "The Peaceable Kingdom".

Product Description: The poetry of the Great War is among the most powerful ever written in the English language. Unique for its immediacy and searing honesty, it has made a fundamental contribution to our understanding of and response to war and the suffering it creates...read more (view table of contents, read Amazon.com's description)

Presents a collection of poetry from the First World War by such authors as Thomas Hardy, Edward Thomas, Siegfried Sassoon, Rudyard Kipling, Wilfred Owen, and Isaac Rosenberg.

Stories tell of a crazed Vietnam veteran, an immigrant schoolgirl, a German boy becoming aware of the war, life on a tropical island, a dying man, and an unexpected pregnancy

Product Description: The Little Time-Keeper: Poems