This Intimate War Gallipoli/Canakkale 1915: ICLI Disli Bir Savas: Gelibolu/Canakkale 1915

Very few collections bring home so powerfully the vulnerability of individuals in the face of history writes Lisa Gorton of Robyn Rowlands powerful poems recording the experiences of soldiers, nurses and doctors, women munitions workers, wives, mothers, composers, painters and poets during the Gallipolli War, 1915. It began with the Battle of Çanakkale and the defeat of the British navy. The land battle was hand-to-hand killing, the physical closeness of its soldiers unmasking the depersonalisation of the propaganda of war. Importantly, the book finishes with a poem on womens friendship 100 years after the war, and the healing nature of love. See more