Poems & Poets from the Great War at Sea & World War II
The Orkney Heritage Society have posted the following In June 1916 HMS Hampshire hit a mine and sank in a gale near Orkney. Earl Kitchener and more that 730 other men died: 12 survived. Orkney Heritage Society is restoring Orkney’s Kitchener Memorial and creating a commemorative wall inscribed with the names of the other men …
Dark waters into crystalline brilliance break About the keel, as through the moonless night The dark ship moves in its own moving lake Of phosphorescent cold moon-coloured light; And to the clear horizon, all around Drift pools of fiery beryl flashing bright As though, still flashing, quenchless, cold and white, A million moons in the …
Continue reading “Wilfrid Wilson Gibson – Troopship Mid-Atlantic”
I have already featured the work of Wilfrid Wilson Gibson ( 1878 -1962) on the Great War at Sea Poetry blog with particular reference to his poem ‘ Troopship Mid-Atlantic’. http://greatwaratsea.blogspot.co.uk/. Gibson’s war poetry was considered to be so ‘authentic’ that readers assumed that he had served on the Western Front. Even the prestigious 1964 …