Robyn Rowland's powerful poems record 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.