Taking you back in time to the darkest of days when World War I and World War II hit Britain, this book is to mark the one hundredth anniversary of World War I coming to an end and to remember my favorite poet of this time, Wilfred Owen. Get your tissues ready as you dive into my book and imagine the effects war had on the people of Britain.

A selection of poetry written during World War I. In the introduction Jon Silkin traces the changing mood of the poets - from patriotism through anger and compassion to an active desire for social change. The book includes work by Sassoon, Owen, Blunden, Rosenberg, Hardy and Lawrence.

The horrors of the First World War released a great outburst of emotional poetry from the soldiers who fought in it as well as many other giants of world literature. Wilfred Owen, Rupert Brooke and W B Yeats are just some of the poets whose work is featured in this anthology. The raw emotion unleashed in these poems still has the power to move readers today. As well as poems detailing the miseries of war there are poems on themes of bravery, friendship and loyalty, and this collection shows how even in the depths of despair the human spirit can still triumph.

In her debut collection, Monica Sok uses poetry to reshape a family’s memory about the Khmer Rouge regime—memory that is both real and imagined—according to a child of refugees. Driven by myth-making and fables, the poems examine the inheritance of the genocide and the profound struggles of searing grief and PTSD. Though the landscape of Cambodia is always present, it is the liminal space, the in-betweenness of diaspora, in which younger generations must reconcile their history and create new rituals. A Nail the Evening Hangs On seeks to reclaim the Cambodian narrative with tenderness and an imagination that moves towards wholeness and possibility.

For those who started their Army careers as Army Apprentice Tradesmen at the Army Apprentices School or College at Arborfield they will be well aware that Arborfield has always held a special place in their hearts. TeeCee's collection of amusing and sometimes poignant verses reflects much of the life and attitudes of many who spent their formative years there and this collection of those well deserves a place on their bookshelves.

Connects American poetry to the emergence of the United States as the leading global economic and political power.

An anthology of Vietnam War poetry, featuring the work of seventy-five poets.