Harry – Violet Jacob’s only child – died aged just twenty from wounds received at the Battle of the Somme, on 16 July 1916.

“To A.H.J.”, from More Songs of Angus and Others (1918)

#Scottish #literature #20thcentury #WomenWriters #WW1 #WarPoetry
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Scotland’s Harvest: Scottish Poetry & World War Two

by Richie McCaffery
Published July 2023 by Brill

Examining the impact of #WorldWar2 on #Scottish #poets of both the front line & the home front. WW1 has always been thought of as a poet’s war; the poetry of WW2 has long languished in its shadow, though there was much more of it written. How did Scottish poets differ from their English counterparts? How was their poetry different?

#literature #warpoetry
@litstudies

https://brill.com/display/title/68291

To Marykirk ye'll set ye forth,
An’ whustle as ye step alang,
An’ aye the Grampians i’ the North Are glow’rin’ on ye as ye gang…

—Violet Jacob (1863–1946), “The Road to Marykirk”

The First Battle of the #Somme began #OTD, 1 July, 1916. Violet Jacob’s only child, Harry, was killed in action in the battle.

#Scottish #literature #WW1 #FirstWorldWar #WorldWar1 #poetry #WarPoetry #Scots

https://asls.org.uk/publications/books/volumes/from_the_line/

“The Sodgers”, by Alexander Scott (1920–1989)

Alexander Scott landed in Normandy with the Gordon Highlanders, & saw action in the Ardennes & crossing the Rhine. He later became Head of #Scottish #Literature at the University of Glasgow, & was president of ASL from 1976–79

Published in FROM THE LINE: Scottish War Poetry 1914–1945, ed. David Goldie & Roderick Watson
#Scots #poetry #DDay #DDay79 #WW2 #WarPoetry
https://asls.org.uk/publications/books/volumes/from_the_line/

Scotland’s Harvest – Scottish Poetry & World War Two
13 June, free online

Poet & scholar Richie McCaffery discusses SCOTLAND’S HARVEST (forthcoming from Brill Publishing) – the first substantial critical study of the impact of #WW2 on #Scottish #poetry

@litstudies

#20thCentury #WorldWar2 #WarPoetry

https://www.scotland.uni-mainz.de/reading-scotland/

This week marks eight years since the Saudi-led intervention began in Yemen. It seems wrong to call it an anniversary - too many positive connotations. But it took me back to the first year of the air war, 2015. From that memory came this villanelle…

#poetry #warpoem #Yemen #warpoetry

Is this the last #love #poem I will ever write? Is the world a fit place for love, or should I start writing #war #poetry, #poems of #militancy and #revolution? Poems about #barricades?
#LovePoetry #LovePoem #WarPoetry #WarPoem

Rain, Edward Thomas 1916 (excerpt)
Rain, midnight rain, nothing but the wild rain
On this bleak hut, and solitude, and me
Remembering again that I shall die
And neither hear the rain nor give it thanks
For washing me cleaner than I have been
Since I was born into this solitude.

#EdwardThomas #WorldWarOne #poetry #WarPoetry #rain

I love this moving #poem by #LynnValentine, a #Scottish #poet (here writing in English but do check out her #ScotsPoetry) about the damaging legacy of #war.

https://inksweatandtears.co.uk/lynn-valentine/

#ScottishPoetry #WarPoetry #grandfather #poetry #InkSweatAndTears

Read all about Marie Penth in war-time London in Polaris, my fourth poetry collection, shortlisted for a Saltire Literary Award. This poetical, post-colonial re-telling of the history of these islands, includes original poetry in Gaelic and English, as well as many of the native and community languages of these nations.

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leamingtonbooks.com/polaris

#Gaelic #Gàidhlig #ScottishLiterature #WarPoetry #Poetry #MariePaneth