Poem of the Week: Combat Gnosticism by Ian Duhig

This quiet, wry poem reflects on the unique, incommunicable knowledge that comes with service in conflict

Combat Gnosticism

Campbell’s term for war writing born
of a gnosis only being there can earn:
I witnessed it once from old soldiers
in a poetry workshop at Age Concern.

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