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Jon Silkin (1930–1997)

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The Penguin Book of First World War Poetry (1979) — Redaktør — 650 eksemplarer
The Penguin Book of First World War Prose (1989) — Redaktør — 46 eksemplarer
Poetry of the Committed Individual (1973) — Redaktør — 18 eksemplarer
Selected poems (1980) 17 eksemplarer
Poems New and Selected (1966) 10 eksemplarer
The Lens-Breakers (1992) 6 eksemplarer
The Principle of Water (1974) 6 eksemplarer
The Little Time-Keeper: New Poems (1976) 5 eksemplarer
Amana Grass (1971) 4 eksemplarer
Jon Silkin: Complete poems (2015) 4 eksemplarer
Living Voices (1960) — Redaktør — 4 eksemplarer
The peaceable kingdom (1954) 4 eksemplarer
Making a Republic (2002) 3 eksemplarer
Watersmeet (1994) 2 eksemplarer
Stand Magazine, Volume 23, No. 4 (1977) 2 eksemplarer
Nature with Man 2 eksemplarer
Ship's Pasture: Poems (1986) 2 eksemplarer
Stand. Third issue. 1 eksemplar
The Two Freedoms (1958) 1 eksemplar
The Psalms with their spoils (1980) 1 eksemplar
Gurney 1 eksemplar
Three poems 1 eksemplar
Flower Poems (1978) 1 eksemplar
The Re-Ordering of the Stones (1961) 1 eksemplar

Associated Works

A Pocket Book of Modern Verse (1954) — Bidragyder, nogle udgaver443 eksemplarer
The Penguin Book of Contemporary Verse (1950) — Bidragyder, nogle udgaver264 eksemplarer
British Poetry Since 1945 (1970) — Bidragyder, nogle udgaver167 eksemplarer
Fire and Sleet and Candlelight: New Poems of the Macabre (1961) — Bidragyder — 16 eksemplarer
Jazz poems (Pocket poets) (1963) — Bidragyder — 12 eksemplarer
New voices (1959) — Bidragyder — 6 eksemplarer

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"
The Soldier’s Death
By Anne, Countess of Winchilsea (1660–1720)

TRAIL all your pikes, dispirit every drum,
March in a slow procession from afar,
Ye silent, ye dejected men of war!
Be still the hautboys, and the flute be dumb!
Display no more, in vain, the lofty banner;
For see! where on the bier before ye lies
The pale, the fall’n, the untimely sacrifice
To your mistaken shrine, to your false idol Honour. "
 
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roseandisabella | 4 andre anmeldelser | Mar 18, 2022 |
My experience with poetry anthologies is limited as an adult reader. Given my pleasant experience with this volume, that is likely to change. Over the last few years while browsing poetry sections I have discovered that this anthology is near ubiquitous. I feel grateful I finally approached it. I would be curious about corresponding verse from Turkey and the Balkans.

I discovered a few new poets I’ll approach again and my estimations of Sassoon, Owen and Blunden were undoubtedly confirmed.… (mere)
 
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jonfaith | 4 andre anmeldelser | Feb 22, 2019 |
BTW the Introduction by Jon Silkin is excellent. It’s not just a couple of pages, it’s almost a third of the book (77 pages in a book of 282 pages, though that includes the indexes and the bibliography.) He talks about the issue of evaluating the war poets for their explicit ideas, even if we disagree (as to militarism, patriotism, pacifism and so on) and his schema consists of two parts:

•… an arrangement, or progression, of poets according to a developing consciousness, in relation to the war and the ‘good’ of society as a whole
•…an attempt to group poets in terms of sensibility and language.

He places the war poets in context with the preceding Romantic poets, and he identifies four stages of consciousness:

•… a passive reflection of, or conduit for, the prevailing patriot ideas, and the cant that’s contingent on most social abstract impulsions.
•…’the role of the angry prophet’, protesting against the war through the recreation of physical horror, through anger and satire, and through sardonic distancing.
•…’compassion’ – with strength of feeling
•…’an active desire for change, a change that will re-align the elements of human society in such a way as to make it more creative and fruitful.

This is a very good collection, thoughtfully arranged and inclusive of both sides of the conflict.

To see the rest of my review please visit https://anzlitlovers.com/2018/04/25/the-penguin-book-of-first-world-war-poetry-e...
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anzlitlovers | 4 andre anmeldelser | Apr 25, 2018 |
Rodney Pybus, writing in Jon Silkin's obituary in "The Independent" on 1st December 1997, said of Silkin that:

"His poetry rarely made things easy for his readers - the style was the man to an unusual degree - and his terse and knotty syntax, the compaction and complexity of language, the dedicated exploration of human pain, suffering and cruelty, must have lost him some of his rightful constituency. But he loathed anything that smacked of smooth and easy elegance or playing to the gallery..."

This sums up so much of this difficult, at times exasperatingly opaque book but one which also contains work of exceptional quality,
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elyreader | Apr 2, 2016 |

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