Product details
- Hardcover: 128 pages
- Publisher: Edwin Mellen Press Ltd (25 Nov. 1997)
- Language: English
- ISBN-10: 0773428119
- ISBN-13: 978-0773428119
- Product Dimensions: 1.9 x 15.9 x 23.5 cm
Snowdon Barnett envisages the atomic bomb dropped in August 1945 not on Hiroshima but on an imaginary coastal village in the west of England. The poem consists of a dialogue among four parts of one voice, deliberately avoiding the gore of the blast, concentrating on this being a new beginning, signalling the last of the World Wars.