November 25, 2007
Volume 1, Issue 1 (2007) of the War Poets Association’s journal War Poetry Review was published in March 2007. A printed copy of the journal, War Poetry review 2007, has been sent by post to all WPA members and other supporters. This issue of the new journal was edited primarily by WPA President and past chairman Professor Paul O’Prey, with some early assistance from fellow Board member Patrick Villa. The list of contents for the first issue is as follows:

WAR POETRY REVIEW 2007 (Volume 1, Issue 1, 2007)

CONTENTS

Editorial Paul O’Prey

TIM KENDALL (University of Bristol)
Thomas Hardy’s Witness

JEAN MOORCROFT WILSON
Siegfried Sassoon: The Longest Journey
(This is the text of a talk given to the War Poets Association at St Andrews Church,
Mells, Somerset, during the WPA’s ‘Siegfried Sassoon at Mells’ day on 28th May 2005 .)

DENNIS SILK (Formerly Warden of Radley College and friend of Siegfried Sassoon)
Remembering Siegfried Sassoon

JOHN MOLE
Five Poems

PAUL O’PREY
Robert Graves and Literary Survival

ROBERT YATES (University of Wales, Aberystwyth)
David Jones, Un-consecrated Modernist

PATRICK MCGUINNESS (St Anne’s College, Oxford)
Lynette Roberts
(Patrick McGuinness’s edition of Lynette Roberts’s Collected Poems was published by Carcanet in November 2005. His first book of poems, The Canals of Mars, shortlisted for the Roland Mathias Prize, appeared in 2004. This article has appeared in a different form in PN Review.)

TED GENOWAYS
Three Poems

HELEN MCPHAIL
Why do They do it? – Some Thoughts About ‘Battlefield Tourism’ and the War Poets of the Great War