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How We Live Now with Katherine May cover image

Joanne Limburg on reclaiming weird

How We Live Now with Katherine May

CHAPTER

The Wasteland

The poem talks about the terrible aftermath of the First World War and the dislocation that people felt. The wasteland covers lots of ideas from the East that he was reflecting on at the time. And we do know that he came to Margate in order to recover from a fit of nerves during the run up to writing the poem.

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