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Pippa222 wrote: "Wow! That's quite a collection! It looks fascinating. I am Effie M. Roberts's grand-daughter and edited A Wartime Poetry Journal, and her other two books, Winter Jasmine and The Golden Glory has Fled. I think they are extremely unusual, in that they tell of an ordinary working class woman's life - and the working class and women both tend to be rather under-represented in war poetry. I do readings of Effie's poetry, and can talk a bit about her if you ever want to team up to do anything. Are you in the UK?"
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821.912 |
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British |
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"When I was a child my grandmother, Effie M. Roberts often read me poems from her journal. She had kept this journal, all written in poetry, through the Second World War. She died when I was twenty, and left this poetry journal to me in her will. I read the complete book on the train as I went back to university after the funeral and was stunned by the range, and the depth and power of the poems. She had read only the funny or light hearted ones when she read to us. Winter Jasmine and The Golden Glory has Fled were the titles of two of the poems which seemed to sum up the deeper motifs of the collection and between them they comprise almost all the poems she wrote.
Winter Jasmine and The Golden Glory has Fled were hand bound, letterpress books limited to 100 numbered copies each, so we very quickly brought out a litho edition, called A Wartime Poetry Journal, which contains a selection from them. This is much more affordable for people who are on lower incomes but is still a lovely book with a very good selection of poems.
Read more: http://british-poetry.suite101.com/article.cfm/a_wartime_poetry_journal#ixzz0PVeWsgLO"
