Poems

This work is a collection of short poems by British poet Geoffrey Dearmer. Like many of Dearmer's other poems, the poems in this collection deal with the theme of war and the overall brutality of war and violence, to which he was an eyewitness. These poems enjoyed popularity during and immediately after World War I. Dearmer's poetry was never full of anger or despair and repeatedly revealed his strong faith in Christianity. Dearmer was deeply affected by the first world war. In 1915 he served with the Royal Fusiliers at Gallipoli, where his younger brother, Christopher, a pilot with RNAS, was killed in action right before his service started; he then served with the Royal Army Service Corps on the Western Front in France. Dearmer's mother, Mabel, also died in Serbia while serving as a paramedic with a Red Cross ambulance unit, for which her husband, the Revd Percy Dearmer, was working as a chaplain.