War Poet
ISBN: PB: 9781847772442, Carcanet, August 2014
80 pp., 17,8x13,5 cm
Jon Stallworthy wrote his first poems during schooldays shadowed by the Second World War and a mother's memories of a brother and friends killed in the First. At school, too, he was introduced to the poems of Wilfred Owen, whose biography he would la...
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Wilfred Owen An Illustrated Life
ISBN: HB: 9781851243945, Bodleian Library Publishing, June 2014
144 pp., 21,0x16,1 cm, 60 colour illus.
Wilfred Owen is the poet of pity, the voice of the soldier maimed, blinded, traumatised and killed, not just in the Great War, but in all wars since, so resonant has his message become. Although he saw only five of his poems published in his lifetime...
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Body Language
ISBN: PB: 9781857547467, Carcanet, September 2004
64 pp., 21,6x13,5 cm
Body language and the body of language – from the first words in the first garden to the last words of last night's lovers – are the entwined themes of Jon Stallworthy's new collection of poems, his first since 1995. The centrepiece is "Skyhorse", an...
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Rounding the Horn Collected Poems
ISBN: PB: 9781857541632, Carcanet, October 1998
256 pp., 21,5x13,5 cm
Jon Stallworthy, the son and grandson of New Zealanders, rounded the Horn en route to his birth in London. He began writing poems at seven, during – and about – the Second World War. The conflict and his colonial inheritance gave him a sense of "the...
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