The Penguin Book of First World War Poetry

“It takes a thematic approach, which makes it quite hard to navigate—it’s arranged by topic, not by poet or by chronology. But it does give some really interesting combinations and juxtapositions, where two poets might be writing on the same topic next to each other, in some cases even with the same title. There’s a ‘Bombardment’ by D.H. Lawrence and a ‘Bombardment’ by Richard Aldington, for instance.” Read more...

The best books on Poetry of the First World War

Guy Cuthbertson, Literary Scholar