Anthony Boden and R. K. R. Thornton (Eds.)

PUBLISHED 3 NOVEMBER 2011 This new selection of the poems of F.W. Harvey (1888-1957) presents the poet’s work as a creative sequence exemplifying his life and ideals in both peace and war.

The included CD of all 64 of the poems is a delight.A professional studio recording by professional actors Jan Carey and David Goodland, it also includes rare BBC archive recordings, made in 1938, of F.W. Harvey reading five of his own poems.

Harvey, a significant figure in the poetry of the first half of the twentieth century, discovered his talent amid the adventure and pain of the First World War. He enlisted, was decorated for outstanding bravery at the front and commissioned, but he was captured in August 1916, and spent the rest of the war in German prison camps, where he could ‘see beyond trouble, the trenches and the prison walls to his native Gloucestershire, of which he wrote with such beauty and delight’.

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