We Wasn't Pals: Canadian Poetry and Prose of the First World War [Paperback]

Chronicling the struggle to put into words the horrors, insights, and tribulations that ultimately shaped a nation’s character, this new/expanded edition (based on the original edition of 2001) presents both the major and “unknown” Canadian voices of World War I. Also contains a Preface, Foreword, Introduction, Afterword, Biographies, “Tommy’s Dictionary of the Trenches” (A Lexicography), A Glossary, Selected Bibliography, and Questions for Discussion and Essays. Barry Callaghan and Bruce Meyer have done yeoman service to Canadian literature with this volume.   —Rex Murphy, host,Cross-Country Check-Up, CBC Radio One

Barry Callaghanis a Canadian author, poet, and anthologist. He is currently the editor in chief of Exile Editions andExile: the Literary Quarterly. He is the author ofAs Close as We Came,Beside Still Waters, and The Black Queen Stories. He lives in Toronto.Bruce Meyeris the inaugural poet laureate of the city of Barrie and a professor of English at Georgian College. He is the author ofAlphabet Table,Dog Days,The Golden Thread,Heroes, andMesopotamia; the coauthor ofAlphabestiary; and the coeditor ofThe White Collar Book. He lives in Barrie, Ontario.Margaret Atwoodis a Canadian poet, novelist, literary critic, essayist, and environmental activist. She is the recipient of the Arthur C. Clarke Award, the Prince of Asturias Award for Literature, and the Governor General's Award. She lives in Toronto.For decades the literature of Canada’s experience in World War One lay ignored and was dismissed by readers, critics, and literary historians. Here, at last, is the imaginative testimony of those who served in the trenches and hospitals of the Great War.