A Spring Harvest

A Spring Harvest gathers the poems of a young Lieutenant in the Lancashire Fusiliers who never came home from the Great War. Written in the trenches and final months of 1918, these verses carry the weight of someone who understood he was living on borrowed time. The collection moves between early lyrical works and the harder, more urgent poems born of combat: memory rendered in vivid natural imagery, classical echoes (particularly the elegiac "The Burial of Sophocles"), and a persistent yearning for the peace of ordinary life now lost forever. Wind over the Sea, with its restless motion and sense of distance, captures the restless longing that runs through the entire volume. This is not poetry that celebrates war or decorates it with false heroism. It is the work of a sensitive, educated voice cut short, mourning innocence while facing mortality with clear eyes. The book endures because it speaks across a century to anyone who has tried to find meaning in what is irretrievably gone.