Collected poems, 1908-1956 Book

To these I turn, in these I trust;
Brother Lead and Sister Steel.

S Sassoon

There is an anger to Sassoons poetry that like a riptide can make a shortcut directly into your brain, the visualisations that his words can create sting, sometimes unpleasantly, but always with an energy that is startling. The poems can catapult you into a trench or into a green village, and these written snapshots of Sassoons life often grant you an insight into your own. Anger, rage, humanity and humour combine with each word, and within them a man chained by reality speaks to you directly from one hundred years ago. Whilst one hundred years later his words still ring true as we still fight one another with a rhythmic regularity. If you like real history then these poetic snapshots will vividly create the war to end all wars, but because it didn't end all wars, then these poems will be as relevant today as they were then.