Interview 6: The War & Poetry with Colin Fisher
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Follow Colin on Twitter: https://twitter.com/Colin_A_Fisher Great War Group Introductions #5 Poetry and the War - https://greatwargroup.com/product/gwg5/ Selected Readings: Dead Man's Dump by Isaac Rosenberg - https://www.poetryfoundation.org/poems/47411/dead-mans-dump Peace BY RUPERT BROOKE - https://www.poetryfoundation.org/poetrymagazine/poems/13074/peace Epitaphs of the War by Rudyard Kipling - https://www.poetryfoundation.org/poems/57409/epitaphs-of-the-war My Boy Jack by Rudyard Kipling - https://www.poetrybyheart.org.uk/poems/my-boy-jack/ The West Front https://www.gutenberg.org/files/55031/55031-h/55031-h.htm#THE_WEST_FRONT Strange Meeting by Wilfred Owen - https://www.poetryfoundation.org/poems/47395/strange-meeting Rural Economy by Edmund Blunden - http://ww1lit.nsms.ox.ac.uk/ww1lit/items/show/9518 Festubert, 1916 by Edmund Blunden - https://www.poetryfoundation.org/poems/57255/festubert-1916 Break of Day in the Trenches by Isaac Rosenberg - https://www.poetryfoundation.org/poetrymagazine/poems/13535/break-of-day-in-the-trenches Starts Upon my Heart by Catherine Reilly - https://www.amazon.com/Scars-Upon-Heart-Catherine-Reilly/dp/1844082253 Now that You Too Must Shortly Go by Eleanor Farieon Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
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