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Writing about War Poetry. Newer posts →. August 18, 2014. I’m coming to the end of my work on the use of myth in the poetry of David Jones and Isaac Rosenberg. A point of connection between them is that they both imagine the earth of the battlefield as a kind of female deity. For Jones, the earth is a protective mother figure:. Pray her hide you in her deeps. She’s only refuge against. Soldiers pray to her for protection:. Maiden of the digged places. Let our cry come unto thee. Moder, mother of me.
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Roy Eastland’s memorial to the Tontine Street bombing | Sardonic Rat
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Writing about War Poetry. K J Shepherdson’s Polaroid ‘lifts’ of the Broadstairs War Memorial. 8216;Amputations etc.’ →. Roy Eastland’s memorial to the Tontine Street bombing. November 24, 2014. Remembering, We Forget. At the Sidney Cooper Gallery until December 17. I am Principal Lecturer in Modern Literature at Canterbury Christ Church University. My research focusses on the poetry of the First World War. View all posts by Andrew Palmer →. This entry was posted in War Poetry Links. You are commenting us...
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Ah! The texture of the page between the fingers! | Sardonic Rat
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Writing about War Poetry. Remembering, we Forget →. The texture of the page between the fingers! October 3, 2014. I am not about to insist on the vital importance of the slim volume (although, to be honest, I. A slim volume, pictured earlier. As I begin a period of Study Leave (oh the pure, sweet joy of it! And once I have got over feeling guilty about just sitting and. The poetry first. To take pleasure in it, emotional and intellectual, before rushing to produce REFable* publications. Regain the slow a...
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‘Amputations etc.’ | Sardonic Rat
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Writing about War Poetry. Roy Eastland’s memorial to the Tontine Street bombing. 8216;Amputations etc.’. December 4, 2014. One of the most disturbing pieces of prose quoted in the exhibition is from. By the nurse-poet Mary Borden:. Nurses working just behind the front line had to confront the most traumatising of horrors and to deal with them efficiently and professionally. The exhibition also contains the handwritten diary of VAD nurse Clarice Spratling. I think the most powerful is created from the two...
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Remembering, we Forget | Sardonic Rat
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Writing about War Poetry. The texture of the page between the fingers! K J Shepherdson’s Polaroid ‘lifts’ of the Broadstairs War Memorial →. Remembering, we Forget. November 6, 2014. There is less than a week to go before the exhibition. Remembering, We Forget: Poets, Artists and the First World War. I am Principal Lecturer in Modern Literature at Canterbury Christ Church University. My research focusses on the poetry of the First World War. View all posts by Andrew Palmer →. This entry was posted in War...
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K. J. Shepherdson’s Polaroid ‘lifts’ of the Broadstairs War Memorial | Sardonic Rat
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Writing about War Poetry. Remembering, we Forget. Roy Eastland’s memorial to the Tontine Street bombing →. K J Shepherdson’s Polaroid ‘lifts’ of the Broadstairs War Memorial. November 17, 2014. We held the Private View of the exhibition. Remembering, We Forget. Last week. It was very moving to see so many people reading, examining, stepping back, leaning forward, discussing, debating and (as I often overheard) resolving to come back when it was quieter to really take a look at the thing. The moustaches, ...
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Andrew Palmer | Sardonic Rat
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Writing about War Poetry. Author Archives: Andrew Palmer. I am Principal Lecturer in Modern Literature at Canterbury Christ Church University. My research focusses on the poetry of the First World War. 8216;Amputations etc.’. December 4, 2014. Roy Eastland’s memorial to the Tontine Street bombing. November 24, 2014. K J Shepherdson’s Polaroid ‘lifts’ of the Broadstairs War Memorial. November 17, 2014. We held the Private View of the exhibition Remembering, We Forget last week. It was very moving to s...
