Wilfrid Wilson Gibson Comments

W W Gibson was never a social worker! I am one of his granddaughters, and the correct information is out there! Please correct your biographical information. I am very glad that his work is living on, and very relevant to the 1914-1918 commemorations this year. Thanks

This is what I call poem it speaks with the heart

My comment seems to have been added twice (second version below with a couple of typos) . Please only read the first version directly below this!

In fact Gibson was rejected for war service due to poor eyesight until 1917, then able to join the Army Service Corps Motor Transport. He never saw active service overseas. Largely forgotten from the mid-1930's onwards, attempts have been made to revalue his work. Martin Stephens in his 1996 work 'The Price of Pity ' paid his tribute to his use of the colloquial language of the ordinary soldier. Professor Tim Kendall included a section on Gibson in his 2013 anthology 'Poetry of the First World War ', stressing that Gibson's Battle (1915) was among the first volumes of poetry to convey the actualities of War as experienced by common soldiers'. Tim Kendall maintains that Gurney, Sassoon, Owen, Graves and Rosenberg all praised his work.

Great poet, you should realy post 'Mad' I felt that it was a very powerful verse and it's my favourite poem by Wilfred Gibson