ANZAC Day and Poetry

Yesterday was ANZAC Day and I posted on the — apparent — dearth of NZ novels that addressed the ANZAC heritage in terms of either WW1 or WW2.

The case is not the same for poetry, however. A few years ago I featured a blog series on war poetry and quite a few of those poems commemorate the ANZAC experience, from a number of different perspectives. Here are the links to those poems now, as part of my own ANZAC commemoration.
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Ellen’s Vigil by Lorna Staveley Anker

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