Successful Recitations

A “doughty little Island” pulses with the music of the sea, and John Bull is ready to raise a toast to freedom. But in this collection, the next voice may turn from patriotic cheer to the “red rose of war.”

Alfred H. Miles gathers poems built to be spoken aloud, with ringing rhythms, bold images and sentiments meant to hold a room. The opening pages praise England and its far-flung kin, then confront the cost of battle in F. Harald Williams’s solemn vision of faith tested by sorrow. From island pride to sacrifice, each poem asks a reader to give its words breath and feeling. Which voice will stay with you after the last line?

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