Counter-Wave: The Poetry of Rescue in the First World War

by Paul O'Prey (Editor)

As the centennial of World War I continues, this major new anthology commemorates a less well-known set of poets who served, but without a weapon—those who were there not to take lives, but to save them. Featuring works by writers famous and forgotten, including Vera Brittain, John Masefield, Ernest Hemingway, and Robert Service, the book presents a different face of the war. Like the other war poets, these take us back to the muddy trenches, the danger and terror, and the numbing sense of loss—but they also have a different perspective. If possible, the losses, it seems, strike them harder. An unforgettable anthology honoring an unimaginable experience, Counterwave will be a lasting testament to the men and women of World War I.

128 pages, Paperback

Published September 15, 2018

Reviews

[Michael Brown · Rating 5 out of 5]

I’ve read much of the WW1 poets such as Isaac Rosenberg, Siegfried Sassoon, Wilfred Owen and Ivor Gurney, but this book is brilliant in bringing forward the poetry from the point of view of those who had the task of trying to save the lives of the young soldiers. The nurses, the medics and so forth.