A Soldier Poet

In the middle of tour in Afghanistan something happened... a soldier found his inner muse and started to write poetry about his experiences. Lcpl Alex Roissetter's writing gained momentum and rhythm with each poem, until finally he came home. Eight months later he was back out on tour – except this time it was Iraq.

Still the poems flowed onto the paper.

Read a new war poet's first steps into poetry, as Lcpl Alex Roissetter flourishes into a fully published poet and tries to explain what it's like to be a junior soldier on tour.

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Alex Roissetter joined the Army at the age of sixteen and did his basic training at Arbourfield Army Technical Foundation College. In 2004 he finished trade training at Blandford, Dorset and the following year was posted to 2 Signal Regiment, 214 Signal Squadron, Yorkshire. Alex saw tours of duty in Qatar and Afghanistan before being posted to 7 Armoured Brigade (The Desert Rats), 207 Signal Squadron. This was followed by a tour to Iraq, and then in 2009 he was promoted to Lance Corporal.

Alex has been writing poetry since his second tour of duty, in Afghanistan. He is a moderator of www.forcespoetry.com, part of FLOW for All (the Forces Literary Organisation Worldwide), a not-for-profit organisation dedicated to offering assistance to those who have suffered from the effects of war, especially the suffering shared by servicemen and women, their relatives and their friends.