Having been hibernating for long enough, I return refreshed and in need of catching up with two recent publications. I will say more about both in the coming weeks, but in the meantime let me strongly recommend Nicholas Murray's The Red Sweet Wine of Youth: The Brave and Brief Lives of the War Poets (Little, Brown) and Kate McLoughlin's Authoring War: The Literary Representation of War from the Iliad to Iraq (Cambridge UP).In other news, the Ivor Gurney Society has a fine new website, courtesy of the indefatigable Philip Lancaster. More resources will be added as the site develops.