Through the efforts of his father, Graves was able to get Over the Brazier, his first poetry book, published by Harold Monro, owner of The Poetry Bookshop, London.
Appearing on 1 May 1916, with an image of Menin Gate by Claud Lovat Fraser on the cover, it contained poems on the war, and childhood reflections. It did receive notice, with a reviewer from the Times Literary Supplement finding the war poems full of ‘repelling rawness and… blunt familiarity’
Special Collections has a second, scarce copy of this work, carrying Fraser’s blue-black image only on the cover.