- Publisher: Enitharmon
- Year: 2016
- Format: Hardback
- Pages: 74pp
- Illustrated: Yes
- Dimensions: 246x304mm
- Condition: New
- Weight: 0.8kg
- ISBN: 9781911253136
- Product code: 545940
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A Poetic Response to Photographs of the Somme Battlefield
Simon ArmitagePostscript summary
Written for an installation commemorating the centenary of the Battle of the Somme, Armitage’s sequence of poems is accompanied by wartime reconnaissance photographs from the Imperial War Museum’s archives. As these show apparently tranquil countryside along the Roman road between the towns of Albert and Baupame, so Armitage’s response features his versions of excerpts from the Georgics, Virgil’s poem about Roman agriculture, bringing out its underlying military and political tensions.
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