POETRY

Canada comes of age

Resource Poetry

  Resource Author Year Pub Source Link
1. John McCrae (The Canadians Series) John Bassett 1984 Markham: Fitzhenry and Whiteside  
2. The Poems of Wilfred Owen Edmund Blunden ed. 1955 London: Chatto and Winus  
3. We Stand on Guard (Poems of the World Wars) John R. Colombo 1985 Toronto: Doubleday  
4. Poetry of the World Wars Michael Foss ed. 1990 London: Peter Bedrick Books  
5. Up the Line to Death: the War Poets 1914-1918 Brian Gardner ed. 1964 London: Methuen  
6. Violets from Overseas: Poets of the First World War Tonie & Valmai Holt 1996 London: Leo Cooper  
7. In Flanders Fields and other Poems (With an essay in charter by Sir Andrew Macphail) John McCrae 1919 Toronto: William Briggs  
8. Men Who March Away: Poems of the First World War I.M. Parsons ed. 1965 London: Heinemann  
9. Scars Upon My Heart (anthology of poetry by women) Catherine Reilly ed. 1993 Virago  
10. The Penguin Book of First World War Poetry Jon Silkin ed. 1979 Harmondsworth: Penguin Books  
11. Never Such Innocence: A New Anthology of Great War Verse Martin Stephen   London: Leo Cooper  
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The Background

Vimy Ridge soldiers Preparing for battle

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The Battle

The Attack takes place

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Aftermath

Follow up and fall out of the battle

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Vimy Ridge April 9 - 12, 1917

Lest we forget

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Vimy Ridge April 9 - 12, 1917

Lest we forget