Writing
Soon after his arrival in France, Harvey had begun to contribute to a trench newspaper, the Fifth Glo'ster Gazette. His first volume of poems, A Gloucestershire Lad At Home and Abroad, was published in 1916, shortly before his capture. He began to write more intensively in captivity, and poems were sent back to England for publication: his second collection, Gloucestershire Friends, appeared in 1917. His time in the camps is held to be his most productive period of writing. On returning from a spell of solitary confinement at Holzminden after a failed escape attempt, he saw that a fellow prisoner had drawn a picture of ducks in a pool of water over his bed in chalk. This inspired his most celebrated poem (and the title poem of his third collection, published in 1919), "Ducks".
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