‘Some Desperate Glory’ by Max Egremont

‘Some Desperate Glory’ is a combination of biography and poetry. Following the lives and poetry of 11 poets Max Egremont looks at what was happening during each year of the war. Each year of the First World War is accompanied by a short biography of the poets and some of the poetry they had written in that year.
The book overall shows the mortality rate of the war because out of the 11 poets Max Egremont picks only 5 survive the war.
Although the book is interesting it can feel a little disjointed with the jumping back and forth between the poets.