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Alans at War

Frank Skinner's Poetry Podcast

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The Valance Seeker's Criticism of World War One Poetry

"I to my pledged word am true I shall not fail that rendezvous so the some some disputed barricade on some scarred slope of batter teal at midnight in some flaming town it doesn't seem to matter to him but it does seem to matter that he keeps that appointment with death," says poet. "It seems to have decided the speaker that he must die in this war  this is not someone who's saying I will fight and risk it and if it comes it comes."

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