This slim volume was published to coincide with Geoffrey Dearmer's 100th birthday. It is not a comprehensive anthology, but rather a representative selection of his verse drawn from his war poetry and from later works written in times of peace. His poetry is a deeply personal and unique chronicle of a turbulent century, expressing both the horror of war and an unquenchable belief in the human spirit.



British poet who wrote verse based on his experiences as a soldier during World War I; his poetry was largely forgotten for 70 years until the 1993 publication of the collection titled A Pilgrim's Song (b. March 21, 1893--d. Aug. 18, 1996)


Geoffrey Dearmer (March 21, 1893 - 18 August 1996) was a British poet. He was the son of Anglican liturgist and hymnologist Percy Dearmer.

During World War I, Dearmer fought at Gallipoli and on the Western Front. Most of his poems dealt with the over all brutality of war and violence, to which he was a direct eyewitness.

He died at the age of 103. The Geoffrey Dearmer Prize for poetry was founded in his memory in 1997.

One of his most famous poems is:

The Turkish Trench Dog