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After reading some poems by John Jarmain in Return to Oasis: War Poems and Recollections from the Middle East 1940 – 1946 (see here), I wanted to read more. I hunted down a copy of his book of poems – titled, of course, Poems – on Advanced Book Exchange, and purchased it. I also learnt [...]
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Today is Remembrance Day, so it seems entirely appropriate that I post a poem by John Jarmain. Tel-el-Eisa Tel-el-Eisa is Jesus’ hill, Or so they say: There the bitter guns were never still, Throwing up yellow plumes of sand by day And piercing the night across. There the desert telephone’s long lonely line expires, Ends [...]
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At the beginning of this year, I bought an anthology of World War II poetry on eBay, Return to Oasis: War Poems and Recollections from the Middle East 1940 – 1946, edited by Victor Selwyn, Erik de Mauny, Ian Fletcher, GS Fraser and John Waller, and published in 1980. Unfortunately, I’d misread the description of [...]
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