An omnibus edition of Scars Upon my Heart: Women's Poetry and Verse of the First World War and Chaos of the Night: Women's Poetry and Verse of the Second World War. The voices of Sassoon and Owen on the male agony of the trenches are familiar ones but less commonly heard is what the wartime years meant for millions of British women - both at home, as evacuees or as nurses in the trenches abroad. This impressive, moving anthology records the devastating upheavals and terrible loss suffered.Includes poetry by Phyllis Shand Allfrey, Rose Macaulay, Naomi Mitchinson, Edith Sitwell, Stevie Smith, Sylvia Townsend Warner.
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The voices contained in this piercing collection will be new and fresh to many readers (YORKSHIRE POST )
many poems to delight. (THE TIMES )
many poems to delight. (THE TIMES )
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Catherine Reilly was born in Stretford and educated in Manchester, held an M.Litt. from Oxford University and was a specialist on the poetry of the two world wars. She died, aged 80, in September 2005.
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