Thanks for the link. I really don't care one way or another about his
opinion of the war, but these lines in the article made me choke:
> His work followed a rich tradition of British protest poets -- Siegfried Sassoon
> and Wilfred Owen were famed for graphic imagery bringing home the horrors
> of World War One trenches.
>
Seeing that Sassoon and Owen were actually *combatants* in the war they
were writing about, I don't think the current poet should be associated
with their tradition.
Jim
PS the poem, by the way, was....eh.
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