The second half of Andrew Motion's new collection returns to the sequence begun in Laurels and Donkeys, completing a body of work recognised by the Wilfred Owen Poetry Award in 2014. These meditations on combat and the people caught up in it look back to conflicts of the past: to the 'war to end all wars'; to Rupert Brooke on his final journey; to Wilfred Owen at Craiglockhart War Hospital; to Archduke Franz Ferdinand on the day of his fatal shooting. But Motion also depicts the ravages of modern warfare through reported speech, redacted documents, and vivid evocations of place, his plain understatement bringing the magnitude of war home to our own shores.
These poems are moving and measured, delicate and clear-eyed, and bear witness to the futility of war and the suffering of those left behind.
Elsewhere we find biographies in miniature, dreams and visions, family histories, which in their range of forms and voices consider questions of identity, and character. These are poems of remembrance in which Motion's war poems, all in their own way elegies, find a natural partner. Peace Talks is a wise and compassionate work.
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Book Description Condition: New. Depicting the ravages of modern warfare through reported speech, redacted documents, and vivid evocations of place, this book includes poems that are moving and measured, delicate and clear-eyed, and bear witness to the futility of war and the suffering of those left behind. Num Pages: 128 pages. BIC Classification: DCF. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 148 x 226 x 18. Weight in Grams: 288. 2015. Hardback. . . . . Books ship from the US and Ireland. Seller Inventory # 9780571325474
Book Description Condition: New. Depicting the ravages of modern warfare through reported speech, redacted documents, and vivid evocations of place, this book includes poems that are moving and measured, delicate and clear-eyed, and bear witness to the futility of war and the suffering of those left behind. Num Pages: 128 pages. BIC Classification: DCF. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 148 x 226 x 18. Weight in Grams: 288. 2015. Hardback. . . . . Seller Inventory # 9780571325474
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Book Description Hardcover. Condition: New. The first half of this collection, 'My Own Blue Eye', reflects on dreams, visions, identity, character and the passing of time. The second, 'Laurels and Donkeys', responds to the poets of the First World War and the ravages of more recent conflicts. Seller Inventory # 511601