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For decades the literature of Canada's experience in World War One lay ignored and was dismissed by readers, critics, and literary historians. Here, at last, is the imaginative testimony of those who served in the trenches and hospitals of the Great War. These pages chronicle the struggle to put into words the horrors, the insights, and the tribulations that ultimately shaped a nation's character. In the voices of Frank Prewett, James Hanley, W. Redvers Dent, nurse Bertha Carveth, fighter pilot Hartley Munro Thomas, and other members of a generation that gave their lives and their souls to the war, is the first anthology since 1918 of poetry, fiction, essays, songs, and illustrations that adds an important new chapter to Canada's literature. Contains a Preface, Foreword, Introduction, Afterword, Biographies, A Glossary, Selected Bibliography, and Questions for Discussion and Essays.
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Barry Callaghan is a Canadian author, poet, and anthologist. He is currently the editor in chief of Exile Editions and
Exile: the Literary Quarterly. He is the author of
As Close as We Came,
Beside Still Waters, and
The Black Queen Stories. He lives in Toronto.
Bruce Meyer is the inaugural poet laureate of the city of Barrie and a professor of English at Georgian College. He is the author of
Alphabet Table,
Dog Days,
The Golden Thread,
Heroes, and
Mesopotamia; the coauthor of
Alphabestiary; and the coeditor of
The White Collar Book. He lives in Barrie, Ontario.
Margaret Atwood is a Canadian poet, novelist, literary critic, essayist, and environmental activist. She is the recipient of the Arthur C. Clarke Award, the Prince of Asturias Award for Literature, and the Governor General's Award. She lives in Toronto.
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Ignored by critics and readers of the time, these poems were written by Canadians who witnessed the horror of World War I first-hand, forming an anthology in which the forgotten experiences of a decade are finally remembered.
