Santanu Das is Reader in English at King's College London, and was educated at Presidency College, Kolkata, and St John's College, Cambridge. He is the author of Touch and Intimacy in First World War Literature (Cambridge University Press, 2005) and the editor of Race, Empire and First World War Writing (Cambridge University Press, 2011). He has published in journals such as Modernism/Modernity, Textual Practice, and Essays in Criticism.

• Part I. Historical and Critical Contexts: Reconfiguring First World War poetry: an introduction Santanu Das; 1. First World War poetry: a cultural landscape Vincent Sherry; 2. Poetic form and the First World War Peter Howarth; Part II. 'Soldier-Poets': 3. Early poets of the First World War Elizabeth Vandiver; 4. Later poets of the First World War Mark Rawlinson; 5. Siegfried Sassoon Sarah Cole; 6. Isaac Rosenberg Neil Corcoran; 7. Wilfred Owen Sandra Gilbert; 8. Edward Thomas and Ivor Gurney Edna Longley; 9. David Jones Adrian Poole; Part III. Archipelagic, Commonwealth and Civilian Poetry: 10. Archipelagic poetry of the First World War David Goldie; 11. Colonial poetry of the First World War Simon Featherstone; 12. Women's poetry of the First World War Margaret Higonnet; 13. Civilian war poetry: Hardy and Kipling Tim Kendall; 14. First World War and modernist poetry: Pound and Eliot Christine Froula; Part IV. Afterlives of First World War Poetry: 15. 'But that is not new': poetic legacies of the First World War Jay Winter; 16. A conversation: Michael Longley, Andrew Motion and Jon Stallworthy Santanu Das; Guide to further reading; Index.

'The Cambridge Companion includes essays on poetry by women, and from all parts of the United Kingdom and Ireland, as well as from British colonies, to illuminate the expanding frame of reference.' The Times Literary Supplement