Anthem for Doomed Youth

This is an anthology of poetry from the First World War, taking its title from Wilfred Owen's sonnet on the deaths of young soldiers. The selection brings together trench and home-front poems by soldier-poets and civilian writers of 1914-1918: enlistment, bombardment, hospitals, grief, and the gap between official language and the front. Voices differ in form, from sonnet and lyric to bitter satire. The book is a gathering of wartime verse, not a single narrative, and it organises poems around the experience of that war rather than around one author's career or a continuous story.

Bound in illustrated grey-green cloth. Pale green-brown slipcase.