Natalie Haynes

There are so many ways of telling a war : the entire conflict can be encapsulated in just one incident. One man's anger at the behaviour of another, say. A while war - all ten years of it - might be distilled into that. But this is the women's war, just as much as it is the men's, and the poet will look upon their pain - the pain of the women who have always been relegated to the edges of the story, victims of men - and he will tell it, or he will tell nothing at all. They have waited long enough for their turn.