Entries from the blog quebecois tagged with 'war poetry'

Another Man Down

Our Company lost eleven men killed in the summer of 2009. A further two, who survived that tour, have died since then; one in Afghanistan in late 2011 and one by his own hand. It seems that Death is...

Munition Wages

I'd never given it much thought, but one day I wondered about the role of women poets in WWI. Poetry was considered a "proper" pursuit (as compared to, say, novel writing) for ladies of the time. There doesn't seem to...

Goliath and David

(For D.C.T., Killed at Fricourt, March 1916) Once an earlier David took Smooth pebbles from the brook: Out between the lines he went To that one-sided tournament, A shepherd boy who stood out fine And young to fight a Philistine...

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