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    A Journey Abroad: Wartime Poems Serving with the FAU

    Author: Roland J. Harris

    £10.79 – £16.99

    The poems in this book were written between 1944 and 1946 whilst the author, Roland J. Harris, was serving with the Friends Ambulance Unit, first in London hospitals and then in northwest Europe following the Allied advance. He remained in Germany during the aftermath of the war working with displaced persons, refugees, and civilians.

    A Journey Abroad (his own title) is accompanied by photographs that he took at the time. These complex poems constitute a historical record, an analysis of pacifist convictions, a deeply introspective autobiographical narrative, and above all, a celebration of life.

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    Roland J. Harris

    ISBN

    9781912567003

    Format

    Paperback, e-Book, Print & e-Book

    Page Extent

    144

    Publication Date

    February 2018

    Subject Areas

    Poetry, Peace Studies, Psychoanalysis

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    About the Harris Meltzer Trust

    The Harris Meltzer Trust is an educational charity publishing books that promote psychoanalytic understanding, in particular of children and young people. It was formed in November 2005 to continue the aims and activities of the Roland Harris Educational Trust (Clunie Press), founded in 1970 by Martha Harris and Donald Meltzer.

    The stated aims of the Trust are:

    To advance the education of the public in general and in particular of those closely involved with young people, by promoting the understanding of children and young people and of their emotional and intellectual development in the family, school and community. To further this purpose by means of the publication of clinical experience and original research findings undertaken both in this country and abroad in the fields of psychoanalysis, human relations and related spheres.

    The HMT was inaugurated in July 2007 with the publication of two books associated with Martha Harris: The Story of Infant Development by Romana Negri and Martha Harris, and a new edition of Your Teenager by Martha Harris.

    To learn more about Harris Meltzer Trust books, browse our website.

    Contents

    Contents

    Introduction
    The Author, the FAU, and the Poems by Meg Harris Williams

    A Journey Abroad

    A Theme for Poetry
    Parting with my Father at Dovey Junction
    The Lark
    Comedy of Old Iron
    On Going to the War
    The Angel in the Rain
    Pictures in a Hospital (October 1944)
    – The Night Phone
    – Sleeping Quarters
    – Home Leave
    – Flying-bomb
    – The Dead
    – Bathing Chronics
    – First Snow
    – The Operating Theatre
    – Through the Window
    – Parting in Hospital
    Transit Camp, Purfleet
    A Journey Abroad
    The Ships
    Entraining at Dawn
    The Way of the World
    Passing through Tielde
    On Going into Action
    The Roads in Holland
    Letters Abroad
    Franciscan Mass
    Lying in the Grass
    The Poets
    In the Ruined City of Dusseldorf
    Picture in Dr Moorman’s Dining Room
    The Black Market
    The Ferry at Vlotho
    The Sand-martin
    Winter
    February Fine Day
    Rosen Montag
    A Visitor to the Blind School
    O Glorious Day
    Hoffmann in Dusseldorf
    A Night in the Truck
    Incident in a War
    The Big Lorry Drives Over the Hill
    A Cottage in the Country
    The Convoys
    Bomber Pilot
    F.A.P.
    Klaus Crosses the Bridge
    While the Prisoners Bolt in the Desert
    Displaced Persons
    In the Polish Camp
    The Russians
    War’s Apologia
    War Terminus
    Return of the Hero
    The Heroes
    After-song
    A Return to Civvy Street

    About the Author

    About the Author

    Roland J. Harris (1919–1969) became a teacher and pioneering educational researcher, and author of textbooks and articles on the teaching of English grammar and poetry. On the Schools Council he was instrumental in raising the school-leaving age to sixteen. Together with his wife Martha Harris he conceived and started the Schools Counselling course at the Tavistock Clinic. Later he taught psycholinguistics at Brunel University.

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