War Poets - suggestions for 2.5
WW1
Siegfried Sassoon
Wilfred Owen
Herbert Read
W.N. Hodgson
Wilfred Gibson
Philip Larkin
Korean War
Rolando Hinojosa
William Wantling
Vietnam War
Michael Casey
Yusek Komyankaa – ‘Dien Cai Dau’
Iraq
Brian Turner
For more poems about war, consider the following:
"The Diameter of the Bomb" by Yehuda Amichai
"Memorial Day for the War Dead" by Yehuda Amichai
"God Has Pity on Kindergarten Children" by Yehuda Amichai
"The Fall of Rome" by W. H. Auden
"On Being Asked to Write a Poem Against the War in Vietnam" by Hayden Carruth
"Waiting for the Barbarians" by Constantine Cavafy
"Navy Field" by William Meredith
"Death Fugue" by Paul Celan
"War is Kind" by Stephen Crane
"The Czar's Last Christmas Letter: A Barn in the Urals" by Norman Dubie
"Spoken from the Hedgerows" by Jorie Graham
"Elegy for Fortinbras" by Zbigniew Herbert
The Iliad by Homer
"Eighth Air Force" by Randall Jarrell
Dien Cai Dau by Yusef Komunyakaa
"Notes for an Elegy" by William Meredith
"War Music (an account of books 16-19 of Homer's Iliad)" by Christopher Logue
"For the Union Dead" by Robert Lowell
"My Father on His Shield" by Walt McDonald
"The War Works Hard" by Dunya Mikhail
"I Explain a Few Things" by Pablo Neruda
"Poem" by Muriel Rukeyser
"Foundations" by Leopold Staff
"Starvation Camp Near Jaslo" by Wislawa Szymborska
- See more at:
http://www.poets.org/viewmedia.php/prmMID/5890#sthash.Htr2tYJj.dpuf
www.fordham.edu/halsall/mod/1914warpoets.
www.warpoetry.co.uk