Above the dreamless dead : World War I in poetry and comics / edited by Chris Duffy.

Chiefly illustrations.

Includes bibliographical references (pages 133-144).

Introduction -- The call to war: "Channel firing" / by Thomas Hardy ; adapted by Luke Pearson -- "I don't want to be a soldier" (soldiers' song) / adapted by Hunt Emerson -- "Peace" / by Rupert Brooke ; adapted by Simon Gane -- "War" / by Francis Edward Ledwidge ; adapted by Sammy Harkham -- "All the hills and vales along" / by Charles Sorley ; adapted by Kevin Huizenga -- In the trenches: From The great push / by Patrick MacGill ; adapted by Eddie Campbell -- "The immortals" / by Isaac Rosenberg ; adapted by Peter Kuper -- "Greater love" / by Wilfred Owen ; adapted by George Pratt -- "The question" / by Wilfrid Wilson Gibson ; adapted by Hannah Berry -- "Sing me to sleep" (soldiers' song) / adapted by Hunt Emerson -- "Therefore is the name of it called Babel" / by Osbert Sitwell ; adapted by Isabel Greenberg -- "The general" / by Siegfried Sassoon ; adapted by Garth Ennis and Phil Winslade -- "Dulce et decorum est" / by Wilfred Owen ; adapted by George Pratt -- "A private" / by Edward Thomas ; adapted by Hannah Berry -- "When this bloody war is over" (soldiers' song) / adapted by Hunt Emerson -- "The coward" / by Rudyard Kipling ; adapted by Stephen R. Bissette -- "Soldier's dream" / by Wilfred Owen ; adapted by George Pratt -- "Break of day in the trenches" / by Isaac Rosenberg ; adapted by Sarah Glidden -- "I looked up from my writing" / by Thomas Hardy ; adapted by Kathryn Immonen and Stuart Immonen -- "The dancers" / by Wilfrid Wilson Gibson ; adapted by Lilli Carré -- "Dead man's dump" / by Isaac Rosenberg ; adapted by Pat Mills and David Hitchcock -- "Everyone sang" / by Siegfried Sassoon ; adapted by Isabel Greenberg -- Aftermath: "Ancient history" / by Siegfried Sassoon ; adapted by Liesbeth De Stercke -- "The next war" / by Osbert Sitwell ; adapted by Simon Gane -- "The end" / by Wilfred Owen ; adapted by Danica Novgorodoff -- "Repression of war experience" / by Siegfried Sassoon ; adapted by James Lloyd -- "Two fusiliers" / by Robert Graves ; adapted by Carol Tyler -- "In time of 'the Breaking of Nations'" / by Thomas Hardy ; adapted by Anders Nilsen -- Notes -- The poets -- Comics contributors -- Further reading.

A collection of World War I poetry interpreted by cartoonists.

"As the Great War dragged on and its catastrophic death toll mounted, poets turned their pens to a world upside down. Many of the Trench Poets, as they came to be called, were soldier-poets dispatching their verse from the front lines. Known for their impassioned portrayals of life and death on the Western Front, these poems became, for much of the world, the literary heart of the Great War. In Above the Dreamless Death, the words of the Trench Poets find dramatic expression and reinterpretation in the hands of some of the greatest cartoonists working today. This daring marriage of poetry and comics, edited by New York Times bestselling editor Chris Duffy, is a moving and illuminating tribute to those who fought and died in World War I"--From publisher description.

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