[New-Poetry] Where are the war poets?

[jforjames at aol.com]

http://entertainment.timesonline.co.uk/tol/arts_and_entertainment/books/poetry/article2785336.ece

>From The Sunday TimesNovember 4, 2007

Battlefield salvos

War poetry isn’t confined to the trenches – veterans of Bosnia, Iraq and Malaya inspired Simon Armitage to tell their stories in verse

A couple of months ago, a friend asked me why there was no poetry dealing with our current war. I suppose he was thinking that the conflict in the Gulf has dominated the political headlines for several years now and was wondering why the poetic community hadn’t responded. Behind his question lurked the suggestion that latterday poetry is both effete and ineffectual, unable or unwilling to deal with the big subjects, being all style and little substance and having nothing to say to the everyday reader, and no way of saying it. Where is the war poetry, he wanted to know, and who are the war poets? 


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