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The second half of Andrew Motion''s new collection returns to the sequence begun in Laurels and Donkeys, completing a body of work recognised by the Wilfred Owen Poetry Award in 2014. These meditations on combat and the people caught up in it look back to conflicts of the past: to the ''war to end all wars''; to Rupert Brooke on his final journey; to Wilfred Owen at Craiglockhart War Hospital; to Archduke Franz Ferdinand on the day of his fatal shooting. But Motion also depicts the ravages of modern warfare through reported speech, redacted documents, and vivid evocations of place, his plain understatement bringing the magnitude of war home to our own shores.

These poems are moving and measured, delicate and clear-eyed, and bear witness to the futility of war and the suffering of those left behind.

Elsewhere we find biographies in miniature, dreams and visions, family histories, which in their range of forms and voices consider questions of identity, and chara

Peace Talks

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      Publisher Faber & Faber
      Published 6 October 2016
      ISBN-13 9780571325481
      978-0571325481
      ISBN-10 0571325483
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      Description

      Book Synopsis

      The second half of Andrew Motion''s new collection returns to the sequence begun in Laurels and Donkeys, completing a body of work recognised by the Wilfred Owen Poetry Award in 2014. These meditations on combat and the people caught up in it look back to conflicts of the past: to the ''war to end all wars''; to Rupert Brooke on his final journey; to Wilfred Owen at Craiglockhart War Hospital; to Archduke Franz Ferdinand on the day of his fatal shooting. But Motion also depicts the ravages of modern warfare through reported speech, redacted documents, and vivid evocations of place, his plain understatement bringing the magnitude of war home to our own shores.

      These poems are moving and measured, delicate and clear-eyed, and bear witness to the futility of war and the suffering of those left behind.

      Elsewhere we find biographies in miniature, dreams and visions, family histories, which in their range of forms and voices consider questions of identity, and chara

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