Gallipoli single work   poetry   war literature   "What is this thing you would do?"
Issue Details: First known date: 1933... 1933 Gallipoli
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  • A poem in two parts, 'Prelude' and 'A Song of Blood'.
  • First published in 1933 by the Poetry Review.
  • 'Despairing of his work ever being published, in 1932 [Powell] entered his epic poem Gallipoli for a festival for poets under forty years of age which John Masefield, the poet Laureate, was organising. Awarded the first prize in the competition, Powell, well over the age limit, then 54, admitted to the deception by return of post and gave back the prize cheque...' (Geoffrey Powell, 'Introduction' Adventures of a Wanderer Century Hutchinson, 1986, p.x)

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First known date: 1933
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