The Wound Register by Esther Morgan Paul Henry ’ – Bernard O’Donoghue

’ – Bernard O’Donoghue

stir the mind and fire the spirit

Egill Skallagrímsson was the most original

The ephemera of popular culture is used to confront mortality

The Wound Register by Esther Morgan Paul Henry ’ – Bernard O’DonoghueThe Wound Register, or Casualty Book which gives this book its title is an official record of the casualty and sickness details for more than fifteen thousand soldiers of the Norfolk Regiment during the First World War. Written during the conflicts centenary, the poems in Esther Morgans fourth collection apply the concept to her own family history in the aftermath of her great grandfathers death at the Somme. An unflinching sequence written to her