The Hundred Years' War : Modern War Poems
Astley, Neil (ed)
Bloodaxe Books (2014)
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Softcover 9781780371009
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Pub Place Glasgow
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Neil Astley (b. 12 May 1953, Portchester, Hampshire, England) is a British publisher, editor and writer.

War never ends. There have been two world wars since 1914 lasting for ten years, but wars have continued for a hundred years since then in many parts of the world: wars between nations, tribes and factions, wars over religion and beliefs, wars fought for land or oil or history or power, civil wars, political wars, and the Cold War when the West remained on a war-footing while supposedly at peace.
This anthology presents poems from a hundred years of war by poets writing as combatants on opposite sides, or as victims or anguished witnesses. It chronicles times of war and conflict from the trenches of the Somme through the Spanish Civil War to the horrors of the Second World War, Hiroshima and the Holocaust; and in Korea, the Middle East, Vietnam, Ireland, the Balkans, Iraq and Afghanistan and other so-called �theatres of war�. There are poems from years when the world was threatened by all-out nuclear war and more recent poems written in response to international terrorism.
Where possible, the poems from each war or conflict are presented chronologically in terms of when they were written or set, building up a picture of what individual poets from different nations were experiencing at the same time, either on the same battlegrounds or in other parts of the world (including the home front), with, for example, British, French and German poets all writing of shared experiences in opposite trenches during the five-month Battle of the Somme.

Poets in the anthology include: Adonis, Anna Akhmatova, Al-Saddiq Al-Raddi, Adnan al-Sayegh, Yehuda Amichai, Doug Anderson, Guillaume Apollinaire, Simon Armitage, W.H. Auden, Nobuo Ayukawa, Ingeborg Bachmann, Adisa Ba�ic, Tomica Bajsic, Mourid Barghouti, Aleksandr Blok, Johannes Bobrowski, Eavan Boland, Sargon Boulus, Bertolt Brecht, Vera Brittain, Joseph Brodsky, Rupert Brooke, Mary Wedderburn Cannan, Ciaran Carson, Michael Casey, Paul Celan, William Childress, Gillian Clarke, Jean Cocteau, Margaret Postgate Cole, David Connolly, David Constantine, Tony Conran, John Cornford, Lam Thi My Da, J�zsef Choli Dar�czi, Mahmoud Darwish, Bruce Dawe, Dragoslav Dedovic, Boris Dezulovic, Imtiaz Dharker, Keith Douglas, Pham Tien Duat, Jehanne Dubrow, Helen Dunmore, Paul Durcan, Darwesh Durrani, Ivan Elagin, Amin Esmaielpour, Gavin Ewart, James Fenton, Carolyn Forch�, Fouad Mohammad Fouad, Erich Fried, Mitsuharu Kaneko, Yusef Komunyakaa, Federico Garc�a Lorca, Zaqtan Ghassan, Albert-Paul Granier, Eliza Griswold, Ivor Gurney, Golan Haji, Tamiki Hara, Choman Hardi, Tony Harrison, Seamus Heaney, Hamish Henderson, Miguel Hern�ndez, Zbigniew Herbert, John Hewitt, Henry-Jacques, Georg Heym, Geoffrey Hill, Rolando Hinojosa, Miroslav Holub, Peter Huchel, Mostafa Ibrahim, Randall Jarrell, David Jones, Mitsuharu Kaneko, Brendan Kennelly, Edvard Kocbek, Ko Un, Ku Sang, G�nter Kunert, Reiner Kunze, Adrie Kusserow, Ilija Ladin, Ivan V. Lalic, Philip Larkin, Denise Levertov, Primo Levi, Alun Lewis, Alfred Lichtenstein, Michael Longley, Robert Lowell, Tatjana Lukic, Gwendolyn MacEwen, Thomas McGrath, Louis MacNeice, Antonio Machado, Sarah Maguire, Derek Mahon, Khaled Mattawa, Semezdin Mehmedinovic, James Merrill, Andr�s Mezei, Dunya Mikhail, Eugenio Montale, Andrew Motion, Zvonimir Mrkonjic, Taha Muhammad Ali, Paul Muldoon, Inge M�ller, Giang Nam, Pablo Neruda, Ayukawa Nobo, Naomi Shihab Nye, Dan O'Brien, Wilfred Owen, Dan Pagis, C�cile P�rin, Mario Petrucci, Kevin Powers, Mikl�s Radn�ti, Herbert Read, Henry Reed, Isaac Rosenberg, Alan Ross, Tadeusz R�zewicz, Nelly Sachs, Nobuyuki Saga, Ku Sang, Toge Sankichi, Izet Sarajlic, Siegfried Sassoon, Anton Schnack, Aharon Shabtai, Jo Shapcott, Owen Sheers, James Simmons, Louis Simpson, Ranko Sladojevic, Boris Slutsky, Alan Smith, Ken Smith, Damir �odan, Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn, Charles Sorley, Stephen Spender, Leon Stroinski, Anna Swir, Wislawa Szymborska, Jean Tardieu, Ho Thien, Edward Thomas, Tran Da Tu, Brian Turner, Giuseppe Ungaretti, Istv�n Vas, Marko Vesovic, Bruce Weigl, Arthur Graeme West, W.B. Yeats, Yevgeny Yevtushenko, Natan Zach, Fahrudin Zilkic.