Exploring the emotional landscape of Veterans: An analysis of poems about PTSD

Abstract: This paper explores how veterans use poetry as a means of escape from their PTSD, and how it helps them to cope with their trauma. I first describe what PTSD is and the …

Poetic encounters with war’s ‘others’

Abstract: War art, like poems spoken by Pashtun women in Afghanistan, can tell our emotions things we did not know about war. For some time, this piece was titled ‘The other …