The extraordinary true story of the Stasis poetry club Stasiland and The Lives of Others crossed with Dead Poets Society.Engrossing. ObserverRemarkable. The TimesMagnificent. Phillipe SandsGripping. Literary ReviewA history so outlandish and unlikely that you feel it must be true . . . [A] grippingly wellwritten book. Anthony Quinn, Observer Book of the WeekIn 1982, East Germanys fearsome secret police convinced that writers were embedding subversive messages in their work decided to train their own writers, weaponising poetry in the struggle against the class enemy. Once a month, a group of soldiers and border guards gathered in a heavily guarded military compound in East Berlin for meetings to learn how to write lyrical verse.Journalist Philip Oltermann spent five years rifling through Stasi files, digging out lost volumes of poetry and tracking down surviving members of this Red poets society, to illustrate the little known story in which spies turned poets and poets spies.

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