Author:Desmond Graham
Poetry of the Second World War brings to light a neglected chapter in world literature. In its chorus of haunting poetic voices, over a hundred of the most articulate minds of their generation record the true experience of the 1939-45 conflict, and its unending consequences. In keeping with its subject, it has an international scope, with poems from over twenty countries, including Japan, Australia, Europe, America and Russia; poems in which human responses echo each other across boundaries of culture and state. Auden, Brecht, Stevie Smith, Primo Levi, Zbigniew Herbert and Anna Akhmatova are set alongside the eloquence of unknown poets. The anthology has been arranged to bring out the chronological and cumulative human experience of the war: pre-war fears, air raids, the boredom, fear and camaraderie of military life; battle, occupation and resistance; surviving and the aftermath. Here at last, are the poems of the Holocaust, the Blitz, Hiroshima; of soldiers, refugees and disrupted lives. What emerges is a poetry capable of conveying the vast and terrible sweep of war.
A book that can sit with authority on our shelves as a haunting testimony to the Second World War.
—— Frances Spalding , Daily TelegraphA wonderfully rich anthology
—— Vernon Scannell , ScotsmanA triumph – a genuinely new story, a genuinely new form
—— A. S. ByattA bold, brilliant book…original both in content and form… DeWitt’s zeal cannot fail to enchant
—— GuardianAn exhilaratingly literate and playful first novel by a fresh, electrifying talent. DeWitt goes to the top of the class...her adventurousness spins out on an epic scale
—— New York TimesA brilliant debut novel...keeps things moving at an exhilarating clip... DeWitt is formidably intelligent but engagingly witty
—— Washington PostDestined to become a classic
—— Garth Risk HallbergThe Last Samurai is an original work of brilliance about, in part, the limits of brilliance. And in literature as in life, DeWitt understands that what we like most of all is a good yarn
—— TimeYou walk into a book due to an Akira Kurosawa link and your fondness for the great film-maker. You walk out, staggered by the book's originality and bravery... It should be read by everyone
—— Irish TimesI adored this crazy, fabulous, lovable book… This really does deserve to be a modern classic
—— The PoolA brilliant and sad book… The funniest book I’ve read in years.
—— SpectatorHelen DeWitt is a real find – I loved this book
—— Independent on SundayIt is exciting for the future of the novel that a writer can do all the basic things readers need – from Peter Pan to the Odyssey, from Bleak House to The Crying of Lot 49 – and do something new with the form of the tale itself
—— New YorkerA delightful and original novel – expansive and intelligent writing
—— Daily TelegraphDeWitt pushes against the limitations of the novel as a form; reading her, one wants to push against the limitations of one’s own brain
—— Paris ReviewAn original, daring novel, The Last Samurai could well become a classic – accessible and as unremittingly entertaining to the casual reader as it is rewarding to those who would delve further
—— Times Literary SupplementA tremendous novel. DeWitt is one of the most interesting writers working in the English language today
—— David FlusfederA singular masterpiece
—— VultureThe Last Samurai is a book everyone should be talking about
—— Huffington PostDe Witt has intelligence, wit and unusual stylistic bravery
—— GuardianAn ambitious, colossal debut novel
—— Publishers WeeklyDeWitt pushes enjoyably but firmly against (and sometimes beyond) the unknown capabilities of the reader
—— Harry Strawson , Times Literary Supplement
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