About the Book: I Brought the War with Me
Remarkable ANDREW MOTION
Revelatory CAROL ANN DUFFY
Movingly profound WILLIAM BOYD
I was standing outside an apartment block that had been split apart by a
missile. The words of a poem came to me when I could no longer find my own.
Throughout nearly four decades as a journalist covering conflicts Lindsey
Hilsum has always carried a book of poetry. In Ukraine she posted a poem a day
and people began to read, to share, to ask for more.
Here, Hilsum collects her favourite poems from ancient times to modern