And the Dawn Came Up Like Thunder Kathryn Simmonds

And the Dawn Came Up Like Thunder Kathryn SimmondsAnd the Dawn Came Up Like Thunder is the experience of an ordinary soldier captured by the Japanese at Singapore in February 1942. Leo Rawlings story is told in his own pictures and his own words; a world that is uncompromising, vivid and raw. He pulls no punches. For the first time cruelty inflicted on the prisoners of war by their own officers is depicted as well as shocking images of POW life. This is truly a view of the River Kwai experience for a

Some of the poems from the 1960s and 70s come close to expressing a sense of weltschmerz (universal sorrow)Ö [Others] are poems of pity and terror

erupt from our minds if only for a moment

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Escaped and Last Poems brings together poems written by the distinguished poet Arnold Rattenbury over a sixty year period

upon literature and upon our consciousness in so intimate

Powerful and complex

She is co-editor of The Echoing Years: An Anthology of Contemporary Poetry and Translation from Canada and Ireland (2007)

For fourthly he sharpens his paws by wood

she has translated into English much of the poetry of Mourid Barghouti

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whose scope and variety most of us can only dream about

deaf and hearing