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We Are The Dead: Poems and Paintings from the Great War 1914-1918

We Are The Dead: Poems and Paintings from the Great War 1914-1918

by David Roberts (Author)

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    Hardcover 2014

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Synopsis

The title comes from John McCrae's famous poem 'In Flanders Fields'. The compiler and writer of the introduction is David Roberts, author of the two important war poetry anthologies Out In The Dark and Minds At War. David also runs the warpoetry.co.uk website, a leading source of information about the poetry of WWI. Many of the poems will be well known, but We Are The Dead also includes a number of lesser-known poems, included because they are of exceptional quality or illustrate an important aspect of the Great War experience. In addition to poems by British poets, there are poems by Irish, Canadian and Australian poets, and a selection in translation from French and German. The book contains 120 poems and a similar number of paintings. Besides the six-page introduction, there is a complete list of poet and artist biographies and an index of first lines at the end of the book. As well as paintings by the official British, Canadian and Australian war artists, We Are The Dead includes paintings by other artists who witnessed the conflict, all specially chosen to complement the poems, and many rarely seen since 1918.

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Format: Hardcover
 Pages: 224
 Edition: 1
 Publisher: Red Horse Press
Published: 01 Jul 2014
ISBN 10: 1908916192
ISBN 13: 9781908916198

Author Bio
David Roberts is a writer, publisher, and the editor of the war poetry website: www.warpoetry.co.uk. He edited two very successful anthologies of poetry of the First World War: Minds at War, The Poetry and Experience of the First World War (1996) and Out in the Dark, Poetry of the First World War, in Context and with Basic Notes (1998). Moved and disturbed by the war in Kosovo and the NATO bombing campaign he wrote a collection of poetry, Kosovo War Poetry, published in 2000. For many years he has been interested in international relations and in particular is concerned with matters of war and peace, and the reform of the United Nations. For two years he was a member of the Executive Committee of Action for UN Renewal. He wrote a pamphlet for them, Lessons from Iraq, the UN must be Reformed (2004). He is working on a book about the United Nations. His book, The European Union and You (2007) is a weighty guide to the European Union, its origins, development, problems and potential. He has edited a volume of poetry by British, Argentine and Falkland Islands writers, Falklands War Poetry (2012). David Roberts was born in Spalding, Lincolnshire, UK, in October 1942 and lives with his wife in Sussex.