Author: Gibson, Wilfred Wilson
Title: Fires Book II - The Ovens And Other Tales
Description: Elkin Mathews, 1912, 1st edition. Paperback, G. 46pp, water splash marks on upper cover, paper wrappers fragile & chipped along the leading edge, chip to base of spine. Paperback , no dustjacket. ¶ A slim collection of poems, six in all. Gibson was a poet who, like many of his generation, was called to serve in the First World War. However his war experiences were brief [ some would call this a blessing ] and his war poetry does not have the same gravitas, feeling & experience to be found in the poetry of those who spent a long time in the trenches.

Keywords: poetry, poems, poet, world war 1