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A Journey Abroad: Wartime Poems Serving with the FAU

Author: Roland J. Harris

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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.

Author

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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