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Other Title: Nineteen fourteen : Paperback edition Includes indexes An unseen / Carol Ann Duffy -- The send-off / Wilfred Owen -- After the news / Paula Meehan -- July 1914 / Anna Akhmatova -- High wood / Sean Borodale -- Hanging on the old barbed wire / Anonymous -- The testament of Jean Cocteau / Rachael Boast -- Calligram for Madeleine / Guillaume Apollinaire -- 'We bid farewell to a whole era' / Alice Oswald -- The little auto / Guillaume Apollinaire -- The duration / Helen Dunmore -- From Diaries 1915-1918 / Cynthia Asquith -- Gottfried Benn, c. 1916 / Michael Hofmann -- From Epilogue / Gottfried Benn -- The crowded earth / Polly Clark -- From Testament of youth / Vera Brittain -- Dromedaries and dung beetles / Paul Muldoon -- The soldier / Rupert Brooke -- Afterbirth / Clare Pollard -- Afterwards / Margaret Postgate Cole -- A Munster fusilier on his eightieth birthday / Theo Dorgan -- A dead Boche / Robert Graves -- Stopping with a bicycle on a hill above Stroud, thinking of Ivor Gurney / Adam Horovitz -- Ballad of the three spectres / Ivor Gurney -- Avalon / Simon Armitage -- First time in / Ivor Gurney -- The jumps / Alan Jenkins -- From Letters to Kate Lechmere / T.E. Hulme -- Migration / Bernard O'Donoghue -- Serbia / Francis Ledwidge -- Boy-soldier / Michael Longley -- 'We had a young volunteer here' / Tom McAlindon -- Armistice / David Harsent -- 'Such courage and nerve as I possessed' / John McCauley -- Redacted / Blake Morrison -- Recruiting / Ewart Alan Mackintosh -- Bandages / John Agard -- 'I was wounded at Mametz Wood' / Albert Marshall -- March 2013 / Ann Gray -- May, 1915 / Charlotte Mew -- The calling / Daljit Nagra -- The gift of India / Sarojini Naidu -- Futility / Billy Collins -- Futility / Wilfred Owen -- A century later / Imtiaz Dharker -- Anthem for doomed youth / Wilfred Owen -- April Fools' Day / Elaine Feinstein -- Break of day in the trenches / Isaac Rosenberg -- Birds of the Western Front / Ruth Padel -- From Birds on the Western Front / Saki -- Bantam / Jackie Kay -- Survivors / Siegfried Sassoon -- A moment of reflection / Andrew Motion -- 'I am making this statement' / Siegfried Sassoon -- Oranges / Vicki Feaver -- Orange in / Gertrude Stein -- Any ordinary morning / Julia Copus -- In a field / Seamus Heaney -- As the team's head-brass / Edward Thomas -- For a fatherless son, for a fatherless daughter / Deryn Rees-Jones -- From World without end / Helen Thomas -- Signs and signals / Roy Fisher -- Grodek / Georg Trakl -- At Stockwell Tube / Grace Nichols -- Clear sky / Giuseppe Ungaretti -- Eisteddfod of the black chair / Gillian Clarke -- War / Hedd Wyn -- Three men / Ruth Fainlight -- The Second Coming / W.B. Yeats -- Last post / Carol Ann Duffy