News at Eleven: War, it seems, makes poets of soldiers

and not the other way round. Today, as most of us do, poets largely experience war--wherever it rages--through emails or texts from friends or colleagues in war zones, through radio or newsprint or television, through blogs or tweets or interviews. With the official inquiry into Iraq imminent and the war in Afghanistan returning dead teenagers to the streets of Wootton Bassett, I invited a range of my fellow poets to bear witness, each in their own way, to these matters of war.

In Times of Peace

by John Agard

from The Guardian: Exit wounds

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