Understanding Poetry

This poem, by Beatrice Garland,  explores the idea of choice and conflict in warfare, and examines the emotional traumas that war creates...

This poem, by Carol Rumens, is taken from her 1993 collection 'Thinking of Skins'. It describes, in the first person, the situatio...

' Tissue' comes from Imtiaz Dharker's volume The Terrorist at my Table , and like many of the poems in that collection, it deal...

'War Photographer' is from Carol Ann Duffy's striking first collection of poetry  Standing Female Nude (Anvil, 1985). It is ...