Selected Poems by Edmund Blunden Shearsman and the familiar made unfamiliar:

and the familiar made unfamiliar: “the horrifying stillness of the rocking horse

‘Yang Lian is one of the most astonishing poets I’ve read for years

where the imagination disrupts notions of stability

he shows an impressive elegance and rhetorical power

Selected Poems by Edmund Blunden Shearsman and the familiar made unfamiliar:To mark the centenary of the First World War, a Selected Poems of Edmund Blunden brings back into print the work of a major war poet and author of the classic memoir Undertones of War. Edmund Blunden joined the Royal Sussex Regiment in 1915, and served in France and Flanders. This selection of his poems includes a substantial sampler of his war verse (the last poem he wrote was on revisiting the battlefields of the Somme). And yet, it is not easy to