War Reporter

Fenton Aldeburgh First Collection Prize 2013 Shortlisted for the Forward First Collection Prize 2013,p. I commend this work for its great originality, courage and humanity. Fergal Keane A masterpiece of truthfulness and feeling, and a completely sui generis addition not just to writing about war but to contemporary poetry ,br. Patrick McGuinness, Guardian Let s watch some more TV. Let s drink some more wine. As long as I m safe I don t need to do anything. See, this is why I don t talk to people. People ask me these questions they don t want answers to. Paul Watson won a Pulitzer Prize for his 1993 photograph of a dead American being dragged through the streets of Mogadishu; he has since reported from the Balkans, Rwanda, Iraq, Afghanistan, Syria ... Deriving from correspondence between poet and war reporter and their eventual meeting on the shore of the Arctic Ocean, and from transcripts and Watson s own memoir, these poems bear unsparing witness to the incalculable damage inflicted by contemporary warfare.