FIRTH by Garry Mackenzie Kwame Dawes Britain’s First World War poets

Britain’s First World War poets changed the way we view military conflict and had a deep impact on the national psyche

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The witches of Macbeth around their cauldron on Halloween

natural settings and photographed landscapes serve to collapse the distance between the speaker and the world she inhabits

It maps the poet’s trajectory

FIRTH by Garry Mackenzie Kwame Dawes Britain’s First World War poetsFirth is a poetic portrait of the Firth of Forth. It reaches back into the deep geological past and forward into a troubled future of pollution and extinction, via the boom and bust of the nineteenth century fishing industry. At that time, government advisors recommended against regulating fishing in the Forth estuary, despite the wishes of fishermen who feared the fish population would be decimated without restrictions on trawling. Within a few