Unforgetting Private Charles Smith

Unforgetting Private Charles Smith

EnglishPaperback / softback
Hart, Jonathan Locke
AU Press
EAN: 9781771992534
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Private Charles Smith had been dead for close to a century when Jonathan Hart discovered the soldier’s small diary in the Baldwin Collection at the Toronto Public Library. The diary’s first entry was marked 28 June 1915. After some research, Hart discovered that Charles Smith was an Anglo-Canadian, born in Kent, and that this diary was almost all that remained of this forgotten man, who like so many soldiers from ordinary families had lost his life in the First World War. In reading the diary, Hart discovered a voice full of life, and the presence of a rhythm, a cadence that urged him to bring forth the poetry in Smith’s words. Unforgetting Private Charles Smith is the poetic setting of the words in Smith’s diary, work undertaken by Hart with the intention of remembering Smith’s life rather than commemorating his death.
EAN 9781771992534
ISBN 1771992530
Binding Paperback / softback
Publisher AU Press
Publication date May 1, 2021
Pages 80
Language English
Dimensions 165 x 114
Country Canada
Readership General
Authors Hart, Jonathan Locke
Illustrations 2 black and white photographs