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Book Review: Edward Thomas and Wales, edited by Jeff Towns
A new book reveals how the writer was much more than a first world war poet
RON JACOBS recommends a book that charts the disparate circumstances that defined the lives of two prominent black Afro-Americans — one a communist, the other an anti-communist
CHRIS MOSS joins the hunt in Argentina for the works of Poland’s most enigmatic exile
SYLVIA HIKINS welcomes a survey of successful contemporary worker co-operatives and economy-based co-operative systems
DAVID NICHOLSON recommends the staging of this Wagnerian classic minus one or two insignificant quibbles
JOHN GREEN relishes the record of a life well lived in the service of the fight for justice and socialism
Edward Thomas and Wales
Edited by Jeff Towns
(Parthian Books, £9.99)
MOST people will probably come across writer Edward Thomas as part of the canon of WWI poets, including perhaps better-known figures such as Wilfred Owen and Siegfried Sassoon.
And, indeed, much of his most widely celebrated work does date from when he first enlisted at the outbreak of the conflict through to his death at the horrific battle of Arras some three years later.
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