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Two popular and long-established collections of war poetry of the
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A comprehensive anthology of poetry of the First World War. All the greatest war poems of Wilfred Owen and Siegfried Sassoon and war poems of over 70 other notable poets. All set in the context of the poets' lives and historical records. With historic photographs and cartoons. Edited by David Roberts. 400 pages £14-99 (UK) |
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Falklands War Poetry Anthology
The Falklands War 1982 and the Falklands Today
Falklands War Poetry Anthology
Published by Saxon Books, hardback, £14-99.
Poets from Britain, Argentina and the Falklands
A vivid testament to the courage, character and suffering of British servicemen
(A version of this book in Spanish is now available in Argentina.)
Falklands War Poetry
The thirtieth anniversary of the war
What poetry can do is give clear and moving insight into the varied human experiences of war.
Here, men who were at the heart of the action in this short but, at times, terrifying and very significant war, tell their stories and reveal what has happened to them as a consequence of their war experiences. But more than this . . .
A wide-ranging war poetry book
Exceptionally, for a war poetry book, Falklands War Poetry looks at the war from four sides.
- We hear from a fourth generation Falkland
Islander who expresses her appreciation and affection for the
islands, and gratitude for the courage and sacrifice of those who
fought to save the islands.
- British soldiers and sailors tell of their
intense experiences as they battled to win the war.
- We learn in frank detail of the traumatic
effects of the war on many soldiers.
- Servicemen's wives tell of the lingering effects
of the war on their families.
- From Argentina, two soldiers tell of their experiences as conscripts snatched from their studies to take part in the war. And a range of writers from across the political spectrum reveal how Argentine society came, in the main, to regret as a foolish and shameful episode, the Argentine invasion of the islands in 1982. It becomes clear that many Argentines feel that any idea of taking over the islands should be forgotten. At the same time we learn how Argentines are taught from their earliest days that the Falkland Islands belong to them and how today many still retain a romantic and emotional attachment to them.
The stories told in these poems are fascinating and moving. The opinions offer important insights into contrasting cultures which may hopefully lead to better mutual understanding.
Edited in the UK by David Roberts, with help from Sue Littleton in
Buenos Aires.
The top banner reads "The Falklands are Argentinas and always will be"
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Ben Lovett
was born in August 1979 at Osnabruck Army
Barracks, Germany. He
is the history teacher
at the
Falkland Islands Community School
Lorena Triggs was born in the
Falkland Islands in August 1939 and
describes herself as “a proud Kelper”. Her parents
and grandparents were
born on the islands, as was a maternal great,
great-grandfather who was a
Chelsea pensioner sent out to the Falklands in 1849.
Her British-born
husband went to the Falkland Islands in 1952. Lorena
was married in 1957
and has four children, eleven grandchildren and
two great-grandchildren.
She came to live in Britain in 1977, but with
children living
news of the
Falklands War every inch
there with them to
British Writers
Kevin Abbott was born in Portsmouth in 1961. At the
time of the
Falklands war he was a weapon engineering apprentice
on board HMS
Sheffield when, on 4 May, it was hit by an
Exocet missile fired from an
Argentine Super-Etendard jet. It sank a few days later. The Sheffield had a crew of 280. Many
of
Commander N A “Bernie” Bruen MBE DSC WKhM RN was
born in Wales in 1946, brought up in Scotland and
England, and now lives
in France. His family is Irish. He is the son of
World War II Fleet Air Arm
fighter “Ace,” Commander J M “Bill” Bruen DSO DSC
RN. Although
entering the Royal Navy as a helicopter pilot,
Bernie soon transferred to
the Diving Branch and, during the Falklands
conflict, as a Lieutenant,
commanded Fleet Clearance Diving Team Three,
sixty-six percent of
whom received gallantry awards. The team was the
first to defuze an
unknown enemy sea-mine by hand since the Korean War.
Eighteen months later, as Commanding Officer of
HMS Gavinton, during
the Red Sea mine clearance, he became the first to
find an unknown enemy
sea-mine by high definition sonar. For this he was
made MBE.
He made a name for himself in Royal Navy boxing,
mountaineering and
rock climbing, as a ship-handler and sailor and as a
poet, song writer,
entertainer and fiddle player. He has three
published books. Nowadays he
keeps chickens.
“We set a sail and see where it takes us.
We make friends and then we move on.
All we can do is to remember as best we can.” BB
Andrew Champion was born in Merton, then in Surrey
now in Greater
London, in October 1951. He served an engineering
apprenticeship ashore
before joining the merchant Navy. Ten years later
the Falkland islands
were invaded by Argentina. Andrew Champion was
leaving a ship in
Venice. He volunteered immediately for service on
the MV Anco Charger
as Third Engineer, a supply ship which had been
taken up from trade by
the Ministry of Defence. She was painted bright
orange and carried, among
other products, aviation fuel for the war in the
Falklands.
Graham Cordwell was born in Cheltenham in April
1956. During the
Falklands War he served as a Lance Corporal in
the Intelligence
Section, HQ Company, Second Battalion, The Parachute
Regiment.
The middle child of five, at the age of sixteen he
joined the British Army.
At the age of eighteen he was posted to Second
Battalion of The Parachute
Regiment (2 Para) with whom he served for nearly
fifteen years before
resigning in March 1988.
During his time in the army he served four tours of
duty in Northern Ireland
and saw active service in the Falklands War in 1982.
He married in 1978
and has two children. Unfortunately the marriage
didn’t survive the
Falklands War and he divorced in 1986. He served as
a police officer for
three years in the Surrey Constabulary, England,
before resigning and
moving to Norway with his new wife in 1991.
In 1994 at the age of thirty-eight he went to
college to train as a social
worker and thereafter worked with people with drug
and alcohol problems.
In 2002, after a mental breakdown, he was diagnosed
with chronic PTSD.
He then spent five years in treatment and
rehabilitation. He writes, “I am
eternally grateful to my wife who manages to keeps
me sane. I hope to be
well again one day.”
Graham Cordwell shares a belief with Tony McNally
that the British army
has not done enough to look after the many veterans
who develop serious
psychological problems as a result of their war
experiences.
Cesca M Croft (not her real name) was born in London
in 1947.
Gus Hales served as a paratrooper in the Falklands
War. Subsequently
he suffered from post traumatic stress disorder. Gus
revisited the Falklands
in 2007 when, on Remembrance Day, at a service in
Christ Church
Cathedral in Stanley, feeling the voice of the
ordinary soldier was rarely
heard, he stood up, walked to the front of the
cathedral and addressed the
distinguished congregation. His contribution was not
scheduled. He then
recited his poem. We have transcribed the poem from
a recording of a
Falkland Islands Radio broadcast and given it a
title which we hope Gus
would approve of, Victory. We are still
hoping to get in touch with Gus.
James Love was born in Glasgow in 1955. He trained
as a paratrooper
and served in Germany, the Falklands and the French
Foreign Legion. This
is his story.
I joined the army after a brief spell in the City of
Glasgow Police. I
volunteered for Parachute training in February of
1974. After passing P
Company and completing my jump training, I joined
“I” Parachute Battery,
Bull’s Troop, 7th Parachute Regiment, Royal Horse
Artillery. In 1979 I
disappeared whilst in the BAOR (British Army of the
Rhine), Germany
and joined the French Foreign Legion where I made
the rank of Corporal.
Unfortunately, the pay and conditions were not the
greatest and I decided
to “leave” and rejoin the British Army. After
getting out of France, I
hitch-hiked back to Osnabruck in West Germany where
my unit was now
stationed - walking the last eighty kilometres in a
blizzard.
After being tried by Court-Martial (under Section 38
of the Army Act 1955)
I served seven months and eleven days in prison (six
weeks of it in solitary)
having earned three months and four days remission
of sentence for good
behaviour. I returned to Aldershot and joined the
Parachute contingent of
4th Field Regiment Royal Artillery and was attached
initially to B
Company of the 2nd Battalion the Parachute Regiment
as a member of the
Forward Observation Party (as a signaller directing
artillery fire).
I was then transferred to A Company whilst on top of
Sussex Mountains
in the Falkland Islands in May 1982. I served on
attachment to A Company
until June 1982 when we returned to the Battery (29
Corunna 4th Field
Regiment, Royal Artillery) and 2 Para sailed home to
the UK on the
Norland. We flew out some weeks later after
being roped in to guard the
prisoners on the St Edmund ferry.
I bought myself out of the Army in 1991 for £200 and
am now employed
by the Ministry of Defence Police Guarding Agency
working at the Royal
School of Artillery in Wiltshire. JL
Lisa Lutwyche was born in February 1955 in Bethesda,
Maryland, USA.
She has been a published poet for several decades.
She also spent 28 years
in the practice of corporate and institutional
architecture and design.
During intense surgical and chemical treatments for
breast cancer, she was
fired from her job in architecture and spent her
life savings to complete the
cancer treatments. (She says, “Never complain about
your National Health
Service.”) Lisa is now a part-time optician (so she
can have health care),
a writer, art instructor, and playwright, teaching
writing and art in four
venues, including a community college. She is
halfway through a Master
of Fine Arts degree in Creative Writing (2012). She
lives with her
British-born husband, Nicholas, in a small house in
the Pennsylvania forest
with their seven rescued cats.
Nicholas Lutwyche was born in 1943 in Barton-on-Sea,
Hampshire,
UK. He joined the Royal Navy at the age of 18 and
qualified as an aircraft
mechanic. He joined HMS Invincible in 1981 as
an engineering Fleet Chief
Petty Officer. In April 1982 he was on a week’s
leave at home in Milton
Abbas, Dorset when he received an early morning
phone call summoning
him back to Portsmouth as the ship was preparing to
sail for the Falkland
Islands at very short notice. He returned home on 17
September 1982.
Lt Mark Mathewson, Right Flank 2nd Battalion Scots
Guards served
in the Falklands War. We are still hoping to get in
touch with Mark.
Tony McNally was born in July 1962 in
Barrow-in-Furness. He joined
the Army at the age of 16 and survived the harsh
training (which he vividly
describes in his book, Watching Men Burn -
a Soldier’s Story) to go on to
train as a gunner operating a Rapier missile
launcher. When he was 19 he
was sent to the Falklands. At a crucial moment, when
an Argentine Sky
Hawk jet roared towards him to bomb the Sir
Galahad, the launcher
jammed and the Sir Galahad went up in flames.
This event has haunted
Tony McNally ever since. He went on to serve in
Northern Ireland but
found his war experience had changed him completely.
Nightmares and
hallucinations, started to seriously affect his
life. His marriage was
suffering and his wife feared actual harm. He sought
help and was
eventually diagnosed by a civilian doctor as
suffering from post traumatic
stress disorder, a condition the British army
refused to accept existed. He
vividly describes the condition in his poetry and in
his book. He is aware
that his writing has helped others to acknowledge
their difficulties, get help
and save their lives.
Louise Russell (not her real name) was born in
Londonderry, Northern
Ireland in 1951.
Argentine Writers
José Luis Aparicio is an Argentine born in the
vicinity of Treinta de
Agosto in October 1961. As a conscript he fought in
the Falklands War.
He belongs to the activist organization CECIM,
Centre of Ex-combatants
of the Malvinas Islands.
Maria Cristina Azcona was born in Buenos Aires. She
works as an
educational psychologist, family counsellor and
specialist in forensic
psycho-diagnosis. She is a bilingual poet, writer
and editor with six
published books: four in Argentina and two in India,
in English and
Spanish. She has written approximately a thousand
critical articles and
poems, published worldwide in newspapers,
anthologies, magazines,
e-zines and poetry books.
She has co-authored Peace, Literature and Art,
for an e-book edited by
UNESCO and co-authored another e-book for the Unesco
EOLSS
Encyclopaedia. Books published in Argentina: Dos
Talles Menos de
Cerebro, Mundo Postmoderno, La Voz del Ángel,
Estar de Novios Hoy
(junto a Ernesto Castellano, su esposo).
Juan Carlos Escalante is an Argentine poet,
novelist, critic and
journalist. He was born in March 1945.
Luz Etchemendigaray is Argentine, born in the
Province of Entre Rios.
She is a novelist and poet and has published
numerous books.
Julia Garzón-Funes is an Argentine poet.
Daniel Ginhson is an Argentine poet, cineaste and
translator. He was
born in 1932.
Ange Kenny is a poet born in Buenos Aires.
Sue Littleton is a poet born in Abilene, Texas,
September 1932. Her
poems have been published in various anthologies and
literary magazines.
Her most important book is the bilingual epic poem
Corn Woman, Mujer
Maíz. She is one of the four founders of the
Austin (Texas) International
Poetry Festival.
She married an Argentine lawyer studying
International Law at university
in 1957. Her husband’s brother was Minister of
Mining under President
Illia and her husband was a political writer as well
as a corporate lawyer.
Three children were born to the marriage, which
lasted 13 years. Sue
remained in Buenos Aires four more years; the last
four years during the
tumultuous ’70s. She published her first book of
poetry, in Spanish,
Imágenes in 1972. She attended psychology
classes and there met young
Argentine liberal poets who introduced her to
members of Leftist political
groups. At the same time she maintained contact with
the more
conservative middle class.
When people began to disappear, were being arrested,
kidnapped, and taken
away to be tortured and murdered, Sue was directly
involved in several
incidents to protect persons persecuted by the
regime. In November 1976
she was becoming aware that being an American
citizen was not a
guarantee against official aggression if she
continued her political and
literary agenda. She returned to Texas but later
made annual visits to
Argentina.
Sue always said that although she and her Argentine
husband were
divorced, she never divorced Argentina, and that one
day she would return
to live out the rest of her days in her adopted
country. She has eight
(surviving) Argentine grandchildren. She moved
permanently to Buenos
Aires in 2005.
Alfredo María Villegas Oromí is an Argentine poet
who was born
in April 1955 and is an agronomist now living in
Uruguay.
Martín Raninqueo was born in La Plata, Argentina, in
1962. Musician
and poet, ex-combatant of the Malvinas. His latest
book is an illustrated
book of haiku, Haikus of War (of the
Malvinas). Martín is a descendant of
a cacique (a Native American leader, or chief, of a
tribe local to Argentina)
Borogano Andrers Raninqueo, who lived in Laguna La
Verde (Green
Lake) Province of Buenos Aires. Martín was a
soldier conscript in the
7th Infantry Regiment Coronel Conde; he was in his
first year of university
when he was summarily drafted and sent to the
Malvinas. He fought in
the Section of the Heavy Mortars in Mount Wireless
Ridge. He was
captured as a prisoner of war and returned to
Argentina in the English ship,
HMS Canberra.
Roberto Ronquietto is an Argentine poet born in the
Province of San
Juan.
Adriana Scalese is a psychologist, teacher and poet.
She was born in
September 1957.
Maria Graciela Romero Sosa is Argentine, born in
Buenos Aires in
November 1955. She is the author of stories and
poems which have been
widely published. She is a psychologist.
Nina Thürler is a well-known Argentine poet, born
August 1942 in
Buenos Aires and the author of fourteen books.
The editor
David Roberts, the editor of this book, was born in
Spalding, Lincolnshire,
His books include:
Kosovo War Poetry (ISBN 0 952 8969 2
3) about the war in Kosovo in
The European Union and You, a guide to
the European Union, its origins,
Lessons from Iraq, the UN must be reformed.
Published by Action for
extremes of danger, suffering, trauma, compassion, selflessness,
heroism,
cruelty, immorality, violence and horror. International conflicts arouse
great passions, and it is clear, thirty years after the Falklands War,
that
feelings in Argentina are still smouldering with regard to the Falkland
Islands (the Islas Malvinas) which a great many Argentines regard as
Argentine territory.
The poetry in this volume springs from the experiences of the Falklands
war, the ongoing psychological consequences and the continuing
international dispute over the islands. It should not be looked upon as
some
sort of equivalent to an anthology of poetry of the First World War.
Then,
in the UK alone, over 2000 poets were published and they were writing
about a war whose scale, destruction, suffering and duration bear no
comparison with the Falklands conflict.
Views of the Falkland islands
Only one of the poems in this section by Falkland Islander, Lorena
Triggs,
may in any way be regarded as a war poem. Desire the Right expresses an
absolute desire to remain free and British. In other poems she expresses
a
personal knowledge and affection for the landscape, climate, wildlife
and
a traditional event on the islands - West Falklands Sports Week. In
contrast, the poems by Argentine writers about the Falkland Islands
suggest
that their images of the islands are grounded more in their imaginations
than in reality.
people) to use force to repel the unprovoked invasion of the Falkland
Islands by 10,000 Argentine soldiers in April 1982. This feeling clearly
ran spontaneously throughout the British services and is expressed in
early
poems by Bernie Bruen. His poems are wide ranging in tone and subject
matter and have a rare immediacy, no doubt assisted by the fact that
throughout this period he was writing daily in notebooks he kept in his
combat jacket. From his poetry we learn a good deal about life under
constant attack, the attitudes and philosophy of fighting men,
frustrations,
periods of intense activity, moments of heroism, the extraordinary work
of his bomb disposal team, dealing with burned-out ships loaded with
high
explosives, disarming the floating mines in ice-cold water without the
proper equipment for the job, and delight in surviving to see England
again.
James Love gives us many vivid insights into his thoughts and experience
as a paratrooper serving in the Falklands war.
Tony McNally, who joined the British Army at the age of 16, found
himself
at the age of 19 with huge responsibilities on his shoulders. As he sees
it,
he had a key role in Britain's greatest loss during the Falklands war -
the
bombing of the Sir Galahad with considerable loss of life and horrific
burn
injuries to many. With a colleague he manned a Rapier missile launcher.
It was his task to try to shoot down low-flying jets intent on bombing
British ships and army positions. As a Skyhawk jet roared in towards the
Sir Galahad Tony McNally tried to shoot it down but the launcher
malfunctioned. It refused to fire. The plane’s bomb landed on the
ammunition store of the Sir Galahad and a scene of horror blazed before
his eyes.
Historians attribute the tragedy to other causes, one being the lack of
naval
escort, another being the slowness of the troops to disembark. Whatever
the reason, the appalling scenes he witnessed and his feeling of
personal
responsibility have haunted him ever since.
Tony McNally's poems, like those of Graham Cordwell and Nick
Lutwyche, constitute a compelling and moving account of the effects of
trauma which affect some thirty percent of servicemen who have fought
in battle zones. Helping sufferers with this war-induced condition is a
major
issue for every army. Both Tony McNally and Graham Cordwell, who has
also written with great force about his personal experiences, feel that
the
British army has been grossly negligent in its lack of support for PTSD
(Post Traumantic Stress Disorder) sufferers who, after all, had risked,
and
in a certain way given, their lives in its service.
Whilst Wilfred Owen, himself a victim of PTSD, wrote about PTSD as an
observer, here we have the truth and sometimes shocking truths of the
experience - the transformation of personality, the loss of confidence
and
normality, and the huge personal consequences for both the sufferers
themselves and their families.
Mark Matthewson and Andrew Champion conclude this section with a
tribute to a war hero, and a poem about Britain’s task of returning
10,000
Argentine prisoners of war to their homeland. The British war effort was
on the brink of collapse when victory was achieved. Andrew Champion,
remembering looking into the faces of the defeated conscripts, remarks
that he was, “staring defeat in the face which so easily could have been
ours”.
The experiences of wives of servicemen
men returned home physically unharmed. Here, Louise Russell and Cesca
M Croft (both pen names) write with some intensity of the unrecognised
distress and heroism of long-suffering families. Although these poems
are
expressed in personal terms, both authors believe that all servicemen's
families are to a greater or lesser degree affected and that their
problems
should be recognised by the armed services and assistance given. They
write to be a voice for others.
concerning the war were written several years later. Not one of the
Argentine poets wrote about the Falklands war at the time. Nevertheless,
the Falklands War was a major event in Argentine history and to the
present
looms large in Argentine consciousness.
When, through the internet, I discovered poet Sue Littleton living in
Buenos
Aires, I asked her if she had any poet friends who had written about the
war. Her response and the response of Argentine poets she contacted has
been phenomenal. For Sue and the other poets it has seemed as if they
had
been burning to write about the issue but, until now they had not
allowed
themselves to remember and write.
Almost all the Argentine poetry in this book was written in the space of
a
few weeks at the end of December 2011 and in January 2012. Two of the
poets, José Luis Aparicio and Martín Raninqueo, were conscripts who
fought in the war. For all the others, including Sue Littleton, the war
evokes
powerful memories and strong feelings. For all of the Argentine writers
the war is a passionate concern.
Whilst the poets cannot be taken as a representative sample of Argentine
society they do represent a variety of political opinions. A few, whilst
having some regrets about the war, believe that the Falklands are
inhabited
by Argentines waiting to be liberated and that the Islas Malvinas are
indisputably Argentine territory. Others appreciate that the islands are
inhabited by people of British descent and regard the war as a shameful
and foolish blunder. They consider that the Argentine government (at the
start of 2012) is playing a shallow political game by once again
demanding
the return of the islands to Argentina.
The poems of Sue Littleton and Nina Thürler take us back into the not so
distant past when Argentina was ruled by ruthless dictators. Most
Argentine
writers, with the exception of the former soldiers, write as detached
but
deeply concerned observers of the war and its consequences.
The Argentine poems have been translated by Sue Littleton with the help
of Daniel Ginhson except for those by Maria Cristina Azcona and Julia
Garzón-Funes who wrote in English.
Looking back
place the prevailing tone is one of thankfulness, sadness, regret and
sometimes tearing heartbreak.
For our poets and all who participated in the war it was a momentous
episode in their lives and for many it was life-changing.
These poems from diverse and even opposing sources tell important
stories
and express important opinions. This book will challenge, resonate,
move,
inspire, surprise or even shock - depending on the reader’s sympathies
with the many and varied writers. It seems only sensible that on all
sides
we should make efforts to understand the experiences, political and
cultural
differences, beliefs, problems and aspirations of others who have been
or
remain involved in the Falklands/Argentina/Britain conflict.
Second I must thank Sue Littleton in Buenos Aires who, on hearing of my
wish to include poetry from the Argentine viewpoint, brought tremendous
energy, initiative and total commitment to the project - contacting
writers across the political spectrum and including former Argentine
soldiers. She not only persuaded them to write, but then translated all
their work. An extraordinary achievement by Sue and the Argentine
writers, completed in just a few hectic weeks.
My thanks, too, to Steve Cocks who introduced
me to the poems of Gus Hales and Mark Matthewson. Steve runs an
excellent blog
about the Falklands. Click here to access.
Also, thank you to Liz Elliot of Falkland Islands Radio who gave me the opportunity to appeal for poetry by Falkland Islanders on the radio.
of wives of servicemen, Voices from Argentina, Looking back, These
poems. About the islands Britain’s claim to the islands, The Future of
the Falklands.
Falkland Islands Visit 1833
Views of the Falkland Islands - Poems
Sports Week, Desire the Right
17 Julia Garzón-Funes Portrait of the Falklands
18 Maria Cristina Azcona 1982 Falkland Islands
The British Experience - Poems
22 Bernie Bruen Thin Out! We Sanctioned No Request, Bequest of
Honour, Task Force, The Account, On Issue War Stock, Hospital
Blast-wall, Mud, Preservation, Pips, At Ajax Bay, “John Boy” Walton
- Mentioned in Dispatches, At the Red and Green Life Machine,
Casualties, The Derelict - RFA Sir Galahad at Bluff Cove, Tristram
at the Cove, To a Young Galahad, Chicken Supreme, Red Beach,
Apogee, We Are the Cowboys, Clearance Diver, The Senior Leech,
Leaving, The View from the Edge, The Men of the Sea, Fame, Courage,
Blue Ridge Pilot 1986.
46 James Love Fitzroy, May 82, Adrenaline, The Survivors, When
I Go, Lament for the Dead, The Thirty Yard Dash, Left a Bit and Left
a Bit, Forget Me Not, What I miss most.
52 Tony McNally Annabelle, Coming of Age, Cleanse me, Men Who
Sit on Chairs, PTSD, Why do they look at me that way? Human waste,
A wee dram, My friend the dark, Violence, War creates Whores.
58 Graham Cordwell Antipodean Sunset , Airborne Brotherhood,
Stolen Moments, Hanging Fire, Disabled, Comfortably Numb, Selfmedication,
Existence, Life on Hold – an Ode to PTSD, Existence.
66 Mark Matthewson Ode to Tumbledown.
67 Andrew Champion Face to face.
The Experience of Wives of Servicemen, Poems
just a little while.
71 Cesca M Croft Return from the Falklands.
Voices from Argentina - Poems
74 Maria Graciela Romero Sosa Soldiers of The Malvinas - In
Memoriam.
75 Ange Kenny How Just It Is.
75 Adriana Scalese Dreams.
76 Luz Etchemendigaray April 2, 1982.
77 Martín Raninqueo Thirteen Haiku by a soldier of the War of the
Malvinas, Last Letter.
80 José Luis Aparicio Dawn is Breaking, A Relief of the Islands, A
Relief of the Islands, Waiting in the Trenches - What Do You Seek?
84 Juan Carlos Escalante The Obsidian Blade of Sacrifice.
85 Roberto Ronquietto A Soldier of The Malvinas Known Only to
God.
86 Adriana Scalese Homage to the Naval Cruiser Belgrano, Heroes.
87 Alfredo María Villegas Oromí Part One - The Malvinas Speak,
Part Two - Words into the Fire.
89 Nina Thürler Part One - Autumn of 1982 at the Feet of South
America, Part Two - Dialogue at the Bottom of the Southern Seas.
92 Teresa Palazzo Conti Jewels
93 Martin Raninqueo Three Haiku at the End of the War.
93 Sue Littleton The Malvinas - Falklands War - A sequence of
poems and commentaries: The Beginning, The Devil’s Waltz, Here a
Coup, There a Coup . . . And the Band Played on, The Galtieri Junta
Coup, The Dirty War, The Mothers of Plaza De Mayo, The Pending
War with Chile, A Political Ploy, Public Reactions, The Conscripts,
The Young Soldiers, The War, Other Nations Take Sides, The War in
the Air, Romeo and Juliet, The Order to Sink the General Belgrano,
Boundaries, The Survivors, What If? The Surrender, And yet . . .
Galtieri’s Fate, The Aftermath, Darwin Cemetery East Falklands,
Peace?
Looking Back - Poems
115 Tony McNally “Seasons Greetings”.
115 Graham Cordwell Reunion, Eyes Left - Remembrance parade,
Privilege, The Covenant, Conscience, Twenty-five Years On, The
Abandoned soldier.
122 Nicholas Lutwyche PTSD, Relativity, Fallen, Will You Remember?
124 Lisa S Lutwyche Deconstruction.
125 Sue Littleton Seeds of War.
126 Ben Lovett My Father.
127 Maria Cristina Azcona Malvinas.
128 Gus Hales Victory.
129 Bernie Bruen To a Young Galahad - Thirty Years on.
130 Kevin Abbott Remember Still
132 Lorena Triggs My Tribute.
About the Poets
137 Argentine Writers
The Great Falklands Gamble Revealed – Tuesday 13 March.
This TV documentary involves Bernie Bruen whose poetry appears on this website and in the anthology of Falklands War Poetry. He was commander of the 18-man bomb disposal team during the Falklands War. The making of the documentary affected him more than he had anticipated. He wrote a poem about this experience which has now been added to the 2012 page of this website. See the programme on UK Channel 5, Tuesday 13th March 2012, 8pm or see the repeat on Friday 16th March at 7 pm.
Tony McNally author of Falklands war
poetry in Guardian interview
"Falkland Islands belong to you," Morrissey tells Argentinian fans
British singer is latest artist to support Argentinian sovereignty of south Atlantic islands as diplomatic tensions rise. Guardian article.
UK Ministry of Defence, Veterans help and advice http://www.veterans-uk.info/welfare/welfare.html