“Brooke was in love with death long before the war came; his poems are full of hunger and desire for death as a consummation and preservation of beauty… “
— Harriet Monroe
Tony Holmes
Welcome to the website and blog inspired by my new novel, Blue Death.
The title for this site is taken from the Duguay-Trouin: a French hospital ship made infamous for where the renowned English poet Rupert Brooke tragically met his end at the start of the first World War. I use the word ‘tragic’ here more in a literary sense…
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