“No more blood shed.
This is the sound of peace.”
In 2018, the centenary of the end of the First World War, the Chelmsford Ideas Festival encouraged local children and adults to look back and reflect on the last hundred years of conflict and peace. The poems within this anthology take many different forms; some were penned during school or community workshops with poets and historians, while others were simply the product of personal inspiration. All are united, however, by the theme of peace - whether understood in contrast to the horrors of war, through the symbolism of poppies, through loss, remembrance, spirituality or simply a quiet moment in the day.