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|author=Harry Ricketts
|title=Strange Meetings: The Lives of the Poets of the Great War
|rating=4.5
|genre=Biography
|summary=The majority of recent books on the War Poets tend to focus on their lives during and immediately after the conflict. This enterprising account, borrowing its name from the poem by Wilfred Owen, takes a different approach in spanning a full fifty years or more. It begins with the first meeting of Siegfried Sassoon and Rupert Brooke at one of Eddie Marsh’s breakfasts in July 1914. Marsh was a tireless supporter of modern painters and after that promising new writers, particularly poets. The journey, or rather account of meetings, takes us to the western front and back to England, culminating in a reunion of two of the longest-lived, Sassoon and David Jones, in 1964.
|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1845951808</amazonuk>
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|author=Neil Griffith and Chistine Grove