[Andrew Frisardi]

This superb essay by Tom Sleigh was in the November 2013 issue of Poetry, but I just came across it. It’s on the subject of writing about war and other extreme states, seen through the lens of David Jones’s WWI narrative In Parenthesis.

(Click here for a photo of Jones in WWI and for drawings he sketched in the trenches.)

[Clive Watkins]

It is indeed a superb essay, Andrew. Thank you for posting the link.

I have long been convinced – since I first read it in my late teens – that David Jones’s In Parenthesis is one of the very greatest poems in the English language.

Clive Watkins

[ross hamilton hill]

'walking for twenty years of nights
round and round and back and fro
on the walls that contain the world'

from The Wall by David Jones

Thank you for posting this, I read his two poems at Poetry Foundation, he was so young when he went to war.