New Joan and Other Poems

Katherine Hale reimagines Joan of Arc for the machine age, a New Joan who tends wounded soldiers rather than leading armies, whose battlefield is the hospital ward and the grieving home. Written during the First World War, these poems hold the weight of a generation's sorrow while preserving the fierce, stubborn faith of those who stayed behind. Hale writes with controlled intensity, her lines at once tender and defiant. For readers who seek verse that understands how war shapes those who keep living, this collection offers the quiet heroism of the home front, a hope that refuses to die even when everything argues it should.