Not always: his recording of “The Owl” by Edward Thomas is like Stevie Nicks’s “Landslide” performed by Meatloaf. But give him something a bit heavy-metal, something like D. H. Lawrence ...

Edward Thomas is a poet who defies categorisation. He is often thought of as a War Poet, but this is largely because he was killed at the Battle of Arras.Unlike Sassoon, Owen, Graves, Blunden and ...