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|title=Strange Meetings: The Lives of the Poets of the Great War

|author=Harry Ricketts

|publisher=Pimlico

|date=November 2012

|summary=An examinatio of encounters or near-encounters between the War Poets, from shortly before the outbreak of the Great War in 1914 to a last meeting between two of the longest-lived survivors fifty years later.

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The majority of recent books on the War Poets tend to focus on their lives during and immediately after the conflict. This enterprising account, borrowing its name from the poem by Wilfred Owen, takes a different approach in spanning a full fifty years or more. It begins with the first meeting of Siegfried Sassoon and Rupert Brooke at one of Eddie Marsh’s breakfasts in July 1914. Marsh was a tireless supporter of modern painters and after that promising new writers, particularly poets. The journey, or rather account of meetings, takes us to the western front and back to England, culminating in a reunion of two of the longest-lived, Sassoon and David Jones, in 1964.