A review by jiayuanc
The Penguin Book of First World War Poetry by George Walter

3.0

A decent anthology. My star rating here is reflective of the book's outline. I disliked the way the editors have chosen to lay out the poems. The chapters list a general theme, without any listing of the titles, authorship and dates of the poems within each theme, which makes finding a specific poem a bit more difficult. I read from the e-book version, which did not provide any index of first lines either, though it looks like this might be available in the print version (?). Mini bios of the poets themselves are relegated to the back of the book, along with the date when the poem was written. For a similar but far better anthology, I would suggest readers look at "Lads" which is a WW1 poetry collection put together by Martin Taylor of the Imperial War Museum in London.