Quiet words that reflect the universal experience of conflict
Letter Composed During a Lull in the Fighting and Other Poems. By Kevin Powers. Sceptre, €16.35. Reviewed by Dermot Bolger.
Letter Composed During a Lull in the Fighting and Other Poems
**By** Kevin Powers
**Sceptre,** €16.35
**Reviewed by** Dermot Bolger
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As Labour leader Ramsay MacDonald cautioned in the House of Commons on the eve of the First World War: ''No war is at first unpopular. Whatever vices the First World War can be accused of, back then - during its heady early months - unpopularity was not one of them.
In those ...