This Intimate War Gallipoli/Canakkale 1915 : Icli Disli Bir Savas: Gelibolu/Canakkale 1915

"Very few collections bring home so powerfully the vulnerability of individuals in the face of history," writes Lisa Gorton of Robyn Rowland's powerful poems recording the experiences of soldiers, nurses and doctors, women munitions workers, wives, mothers, composers, painters and poets during the Gallipolli War,1915. It began with the Battle of Çanakkale and the defeat of the British navy. The land battle was hand-to-hand killing, the physical closeness of its soldiers unmasking the depersonalization of the propaganda of war. Importantly, the book finishes with a poem on women's friendship 100 years after the war, and the healing nature of love. Front Cover 1 Title Page 2 Half Title 6 Biographical notes: Robyn Rowland 7 Özgeçmişler: Robyn Rowland 8 Biographical notes: Mehmet Ali Çelikel 9 Özgeçmişler: Mehmet Ali Çelikel 10 Acknowledgements 11 Teşekkür 12 Translator’s Acknowledgments 13 Çevirmenin Teşekkürü 14 Contents 17 thank heavens 19 The Folly of Myth: Prologue, 1915 21 I Desire and myth 21 II Naval Battle of Çanakkale, March 18, 1915 23 III The Eight Months War: Gallipoli/Gelibolu, April 25, 1915 – January 8, 1916 27 Nightingale 31 Night ravings 35 Close 37 Children of Gallipoli 43 Mopping up 47 Production lines 55 Elegy for the music 59 The Shattering 65 Green Road 69 Sky fighting 75 The Dead 79 ‘Anybody left? Anybody left? No?’ 81 Luck 87 When he was young, once 91 Second skin 95 Ways of seeing 99 I Sketches at Gallipoli, 1915 Major LFS Hore 99 II The Myth Rider Sidney Nolan 101 III Çanakkale revisited Korkut Ulug 105 Poppy-picking 113