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Booksellers

All our titles are available from all booksellers, and other book sources, but the following usually hold stocks.

(Minds at War and Out in the Dark have both been printed four times now so if a bookshop you know does not have them you might do them a favour by suggesting they add them to their stock.)

A great many branches of Waterstones

Many branches of Borders UK

Some Books etc branches

Some branches of Blackwells

The Imperial War Museum (London)

All book suppliers can obtain our titles for you.

Poetry

Libraries

The Poetry Library, Royal Festival Hall, Level 5, London SE1 8XX. 
Phone, 020 7921 0664 or 020 7921 0939.
Information service and loans. Open Tuesday to Sunday, 11 am to 8 pm.
e-mail: poetrylibrary@rfh.org.uk
web site  -  www.poetrylibrary.org.uk

Birmingham Library Services, Central Library, Chamberlain Square, Birmingham B3 3HQ. 
Phone 0121 235 2615. 
Extensive research collection of war poetry.
www.birmingham.gov.uk/artslibrary.bcc
 

Literary Societies

The Wilfred Owen Association, 17 Belmont, Shrewsbury, Shropshire SY1 1TE 
Phone, 01743 460089
www.1914-18.co.uk/owen

Siegfried Sassoon Fellowship. PO Box 11, Cowbridge, CF71 7XT                        Contact Deborah Fisher, 01656 659 286  (Unable to confirm details 2004)

Edward Thomas Fellowship,1 Carfax, undercliff Drive, St Lawrence, Isle of Wight PO38 1XG  Phone 01983 853366 colingthornton@btopenworld.com

Ivor Gurney Society.  4 Myton Road, London SE21 8EB                   
Phone 0208 761 3180
william.marshall@kcl.ac.uk
www.ivor.gurney.net

The Rupert Brooke Society 45/47 Mill Way, Grantchester CB3 9ND
Phone Claire Pidoux 01223 551118 (UK)
e-mail  rbs@callan.co.uk

The David Jones Society
48 Sylvan Way, Sketty, SWANSEA
SA2 9JB
01792 206 144
FAX 01792 205 305

e-mail  anne.price-owen@sihe.ac.uk

www.sihe/ac/uk/davidjones

Robert Graves Society. Contact Patrick Villa, 01275 373 166 (Unable to confirm details 2004)

 The John Masefield Society
Chairman: Peter Carter
The Frith, Ledbury, Herefordshire
HR8 1LW

Office phone 01531 631 647
e-mail petercarter@btinternet.com

Friends of the Dymock Poets (Edward Thomas, Rupert Brooke and others). Hon. Secretary: Catharine Luck, Burgage House, 19 The Southend, Ledbury, Herefordhire HR8 2EY.  Phone 01531 683 4796 cate.luck2003@yahoo.com www.dymockpoets.co.uk
 

The Poetry Society, 22 Betterton Street, London WC2H 9BX 
Phone 020 7240 9881
email info@poetry.soc.com
www.poetrysociety.org.uk

BBC
www.bbc.co.uk/arts/books/


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War and Peace studies, and teaching materials
Imperial War Museum, Lambeth Road, London SE1 6HZ. 
Phone, 020 7416 5000. www.iwm.org.uk

Peace Pledge Union, 41b Brecknock Road, London N7 0BT 
Phone, 020 7424 9444.

www.ppu.org.uk (Information for schools from a pacifist perspective.)

Campaign Against the Arms Trade (CAAT), 11 Goodwin street, London N4 3HQ 
Phone, 020 7281- 0297. www.caat.org.uk

United Nations Association of Great Britain and Northern Ireland (UNA), 3 Whitehall Court, London SW1A 2EL
Phone, 020 7930 2931. www.una-uk.org

Action for UN Renewal
3 Whitehall Court, London SW1A 2EL
Phone 020 8399 2547
www.action-for-un-renewal.org.uk
 

University of Bradford School of Peace Studies, Richmond Road, Bradford BD7 1DP 
01274 235235
www.brad.ac.uk/acad/peace/

University of Lancaster Richardson Institute 
(Dept of Politics and International Relations), Cartmel College, Lancaster LA1 4YL 
Phone 01524 594262.
www.lancs.ac.uk/users/richinst/riwebs1.html
 

Critical Studies

A Textwise guide to the poetry of the First World War was published in 2003. It consists of 48 A4 spiral bound, photocopiable pages of in depth analysis of poetry by 12 First World War poets. The pages are packed with sharp insights and written with an infectious passion for the subject. They cannot fail to enlighten and inspire students.

More information is available from The Critical Forum, 10 West Street, Buckingham  MK18 1HL  or visit their web site: www.thecriticalforum.co.uk


Cover of Out in the Dark

Out in the Dark
Poetry of the First World War
in Context and with Basic Notes 

ISBN   0 952 8969 15  

Price £7-99 (UK)

For more information click title.
Out in the Dark, Poetry of the First World War


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Minds at War
the Poetry and Experience of the First World War

410 pages  Paperback   
  9x6"  234x156mm

     
Illustrated  


ISBN 0 952 8969 0 7  
£14-99 (UK)
 

Fourth Printing 

Published by Saxon Books

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