Armistice: A Laureate's Choice of Poems of War and Peace, ed. by Carol Ann Duffy Abigail Parry consciousness and fellow animal beings

consciousness and fellow animal beings

Girls Are Coming Out of the Woods is Tishani Doshi's third book of poems

the Spectator and Punch

never mind the lavender-scented pillow

then demonstrates

Armistice: A Laureate's Choice of Poems of War and Peace, ed. by Carol Ann Duffy Abigail Parry consciousness and fellow animal beingsThe Armistice of 1918 brought ceasefire to the war on the Western Front, but 'the Great War' would not as hoped be 'the war to end all wars'. In this affecting selection, the Poet Laureate, Carol Ann Duffy, guides us deep into the act and root of 'armistice': its stoppage or 'stand' of arms, its search for truce and ceasefire. In 100 poems, our most cherished poets of the Great War speak alongside those from other conflicts and cultures, so that we