Edmund Blunden's writing career began in 1914 and ended during the 1960's, giving us half a century of poetry which sidestepped the dominant literary fashions after 1930. In this new selection - including works which have been out of print for many years - the editors have sought to represent each aspect of his poetry so that the familiar is seen in context with the lesser known. Above all, Blunden retained a haunted quality to his writing, one which resonates with contemporary ideas about loss and personal dislocation.

Rennie Parker obtained her PhD in 1997 after researching the poet and composer Ivor Gurney. 'The Georgian Poets' appeared in 1999, and she has published two poetry collections. She works for Arts NK in Lincolnshire.

Margi Blunden has a degree in English and is a trained teacher. She is the eldest of Edmund Blunden's four daughters by his third marriage.

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'The Blackbird Inspector' by Pamela Coren

Harold Monro was one of the leaders in the revolution in poetry just before the First World War, contributing through his writing, the Poetry Bookshop he established and the three periodicals he created. His reputation as a generous supporter of new talent is unquestioned. His friend, T.S. Eliot wrote, ". . . he has not simply done something better than anyone else, but has done something that no one else has done at all." Driven first by visionary hope for the future, Monro wrote on themes as diverse as war, sexuality, threats to the environment, domesticity and the death of a lover in battle. The end of his life was clouded by loss, illness and disappointment, and his poetry which Edward Thomas called "intensely interesting", naturally grew bleaker and more pessimistic. Yet as T.S. Eliot said, ". . . it is a world which we ought to visit." Selection

Dominic Hibberd has taught at universities in Britain, the United States and China. Now a freelance author, he lives in the Cotswolds. His publications include two biographies, Harold Monro: Poet of the New Age (2000)―described by the Sunday Times as 'gripping'―and the much acclaimed Wilfred Owen: A New Biography (2002), as well as Wilfred Owen: The Last Year 1917-1918 (1992), Owen the Poet (1986) and various editions, anthologies and academic articles, mostly about the literature of the First World War.

ISBN 978-1-873390-05-4 Pbk 128pp £7.99

A year before the start of World War I, finding life as a critic and journalist stressful and unsatisfying, Edward Thomas wrote this account of a ride on a bicycle from London to the Quantocks. The book, a classic of English literature, combines Thomas's unsentimental self analysis with an emphasis on the importance of place and nature to other writers, especially poets. It also records the tacit reactions of a transcendental thinker to the rising threat of war. Having achieved perhaps his finest work in prose in 'In Pursuit of Spring', Thomas was next to turn to writing the poetry which has secured his reputation. Selection

The fourteen short stories in 'Light and Twilight' are Edward Thomas's prose masterpiece on the themes of death and desire. Their objective is to pinpoint moments when the defining elements of life reveal themselves, like stars at sunset. Readers familiar with his poetry will discover the stories in 'Light and Twilight' to be as hauntingly beautiful. This is the first edition since 1911.

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'All Told' is a poem, a year in the making, that was written to capture the entirety of one period of time and to give away everything about its creator. Like a pair of outstretched hands, it feels its way toward a possible world of certainty, elusive and unseen, that continually suggests its presence in sudden flashes and apparent hints. The seasons come and go, circumstances alter, dreams fade, and, left holding thin air, a moment of shared experience comes: "I feel the whole world change."