The Child on the Cliffs

Mission, BC Canada: Barbarian Press, 2025. Softcover. Fine. Softcover. One of 120 copies. This is the 3rd of the Loose Canons pamphlets, a series conceived by the Press to draw readers' attention to poets whose work, once well known, has fallen into the shadows & become lost to sight. Edward Thomas, (1878 - 1917) was killed in Flanders. He was a British writer of English poetry and prose. He is sometimes considered a war poet, although few of his poems deal directly with his war experiences. He only started writing poetry at the age of 36, but by that time he had already been a prolific critic, biographer, nature writer and travel writer for two decades. In 1915, he enlisted in the British Army to fight in the First World War and was killed in action during the Battle of Arras in 1917, soon after he arrived in France. The text for this pamphlet is taken from the Oxford edition of Thomas's Collected Poems. Crispin Elsted designed the piece and arranged the poems. It is sewn into wraps of gray St-Armand paper. The type is Joanna with Tiern Titling for display, and the text is on Zerkall Cream Laid paper. In fine condition. Measures 7.25 x12 inches. Unpaginated (18 pages) PRI/012126.