I Brought the War with Me: Stories and Poems from the Front Line

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“I was standing outside an apartment block that had been split apart by a missile. The words of a poem came to me when I could no longer find my own.”

Channel 4 News’ International Editor, Lindsey Hilsum has spent nearly four decades covering conflict from Rwanda and Kosovo to Ukraine and Palestine. Throughout those years she has always carried a book of poetry, often finding the words she needed when she couldn’t summon her own. She describes interviewing warlords in Bosnia, meeting child soldiers in Uganda, and giving testimony in Rwanda. She talks about the pity of war – and its fatal attraction.

Her book, In Extremis: the Life of War Correspondent Marie Colvin, won the 2019 James Tait Black Prize for biography.

Chaired by Caitlin MacNamara.

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