Matthew Hollis: Now All Roads Lead to France

Matthew Hollis's biography of the great War Poet describes the final four years of Edward Thomas's life. Thomas died on the first day of the Arras Offensive in 1917, but prior to that had become one of the century's most influential poets - 'a hinge between the old and the new worlds'. And yet his poetry career only took off relatively late, the result of a productive friendship with American poet Robert Frost ...