Wilfred Owen: A Biography

Of all the poets of the First World War, Wilfred Owen most fires the imagination today.

This biography is more than a simple account of his life – the childhood spent in the back streets of Birkenhead and Shrewsbury, the appalling months in the trenches – it is a poet’s enquiry into the workings of a poet’s mind.

This paperback edition reproduces all the widely praised illustrations and facsimile manuscripts of the original hardback. It is, as The Scotsman commented, ‘indispensable to any student of Wilfred Owen’s life and work.’