Frontlines and Lifelines

Tim Hodgetts

Frontlines and Lifelines
Format
Hardback
Publisher
Unicorn Publishing Group
Country
United Kingdom
Published
12 August 2024
Pages
160
ISBN
9781916846319

Frontlines and Lifelines

Tim Hodgetts

This work captures personal experience of the Army's Surgeon General as a military doctor in crisis and war, spanning 30 years from Northern Ireland; through Kosovo to the Iraq and Afghanistan campaigns; culminating in the COVID-19 pandemic and the Russo-Ukraine war.

Poetry provides the ability to say what is otherwise difficult or unpalatable. Some of the poems are critical and challenging. Some are humorous, as dark humour is a well-recognised resilience tool of the soldier. All are observational-and all are grounded in the realities of crisis and conflict.

It is likely you have read war poetry from the perspectives of the combat soldier: but this book is the alternative perspective of those who manage the consequences of war. The work exposes that saving lives in conflict, picking up the human pieces, takes a toll on the carers. Writing these poems has been a means for the author to sustain mental resilience and to cope with serial morally injurious events.

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