From the worst horrors of modern trench warfare a small handful of soldiers and nurses created a body of poetry that is so vivid and intense that one hundred ye

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 compa

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 litera

This major new anthology brings together for the first time the work of ten poets who saw active service in the First World War, but not with a gun in their han

In this moving anthology, the Poet Laureate Andrew Motion guides us through the horror and the pity of the Great War, from the trenches of the Western Front to