Power & Conflict Anthology

Ozymandias — explores the transience of political power and human arrogance

London — exposes the suffering and oppression in industrial city life

Extract from The Prelude — recounts a transformative encounter with nature's sublime power

My Last Duchess — dramatic monologue revealing a Duke's obsessive control and jealousy

Charge of the Light Brigade — commemorates soldiers' bravery and questions military authority

Exposure — depicts the brutal reality of trench warfare and nature's indifferent violence

Storm on the Island — uses a storm as a metaphor for political and natural threat

Bayonet Charge — captures the terrifying chaos and disillusionment of a soldier in battle

Remains — explores the psychological trauma and guilt haunting a soldier after killing

Poppies — a mother's grief as her son leaves for war, told through domestic imagery

War Photographer — examines the moral tension between documenting suffering and feeling it

Tissue — meditates on the fragility of human structures and the power of light

The Emigrée — presents a speaker's idealised memory of a homeland lost to conflict

Checking Out Me History — challenges colonial education and reclaims Caribbean identity

Kamikaze — explores a pilot's decision to turn back and the shame imposed by society