Chaos Of The Night

By Catherine Reilly

Book Overview

A deeply moving collection of women's poetry from the Second World War.

With these words - a vivid mingling of hope and despair - Frances Cornford protested against the terrible brutality of war. Here, in a collection of women's poetry from the Second World War, eighty-seven poets record the devastating upheavals it caused with its attendant partings, separations, and bereavements. Whether as civilians or as auxiliary servicewomen, these women write of the fear of air attacks, of children's response to evacuation, of their horror of Nazi persecution. But they convey the sweet expectation of peace, of reunion and rebirth. Amongst the poets, some known and many less known, are Phyllis Shand Allfrey, Elaine Feinstein, F. Tennyson Jesse, Naomi Mitchison, Edith Sitwell, Stevie Smith and Sylvia Townsend Warner.

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1844082245
• ISBN13: 9781844082247
• Release Date: November 2007
• Publisher: Virago Press (UK)
• Length: 176 Pages
• Weight: 0.25 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.6" x 4.9" x 7.5"