These top 5 books of poetry about war powerfully capture the needless horrors of war.
1. Home by Uvi Poznasky
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“Home. A simple word; a loaded one. You can say it in a whisper; you can say it in a cry. Expressed in the voices of father and daughter, you can hear a visceral longing, in poems and prose, for an ideal place. A place never to be found again.”
2. War Cries: Unheard Voices, Unmarked Graves by Kerry Arquette
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“By listening to the voices of those with stories to tell, we can grow in our appreciation of what it means to be human.
“WAR CRIES: UNHEARD STORIES, UNMARKED GRAVES provides a stage for the voices—many inspired by people present in Europe during World War II—to speak their truths.”
3. War Poetry: Poetry Inspired by the 100th Anniversary of the First World War by Edward Dinde
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“This is a collection of poetry written to honor the dead of all wars.”
4. Listen, The War by Frederick Kiley
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“These poems were written by people who probably have nothing in common except that somehow each was involved in or with the war in Vietnam…Their poems reflect both direct involvement in combat and a wide variety of other kinds of experience in the country….They are sons, wives, daughters, mothers, fathers or friends of men and women in Southeast Asia.”
5. What Are We Fighting For? New Poems About War by Brian Moses and Roger Stevens
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“Explore the concept of war in a distinctively accessible way with these poems for younger readers. Fascinating and moving in equal measure, there are poems about incredibly brave dogs, cats, and pigeons; the Christmas truce of WWI, when soldiers played soccer in No Man’s Land; poems about rationing and what it was like to be an evacuee; poems about modern warfare and the reality of war today; plus lots of amazing true historical facts. This cross-curricular poetry book is a brilliant way to get young readers thinking about both the historical and philosophical aspects of war.”
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