The second half of Andrew Motion's new collection returns to the
sequence begun in Laurels and Donkeys, completing a body of work
recognised by the Wilfred Owen Poetry Award in 2014. These
meditations on combat and the people caught up in it look back to
conflicts of the past: to the 'war to end all wars'; to Rupert
Brooke on his final journey; to Wilfred Owen at Craiglockhart War
Hospital; to Archduke Franz Ferdinand on the day of his fatal
shooting. But Motion also depicts the ravages of modern warfare
through reported speech, redacted documents, and vivid evocations
of place, his plain understatement bringing the magnitude of war
home to our own shores. These poems are moving and measured,
delicate and clear-eyed, and bear witness to the futility of war
and the suffering of those left behind. Elsewhere we find
biographies in miniature, dreams and visions, family histories,
which in their range of forms and voices consider questions of
identity, and character. These are poems of remembrance in which
Motion's war poems, all in their own way elegies, find a natural
partner. Peace Talks is a wise and compassionate work.
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