Today (11 November) marks Remembrance Day, also known as Armistice Day, which means a chance to stop and think about those ...
Two women have saved a war poet's work from being lost - twice over and more than 100 years apart. Only 24, Nowell Oxland died in World War One in 1915, nine days before one of his poems, about his ...
Poems by a Cumbrian soldier killed in action in the First World War have been saved and are being celebrated in a new book.
Lowell Knobloch interviewed Mitchell resident William Thompson as part of his mission to preserve veterans’ stories ...
Sara Teasdale (1884–1933), an American lyric poet, was the author of nine volumes of poetry published between 1907 and the year of her death. Though her poems frequently appear in anthologies for ...
Striking images from 1914 to 1918 show what life was like for those at home during the First World War, especially women.
The War Poems are a daily witnessing of the pain and suffering of two nations. After waking to the news of the Israeli massacre by Hamas on October 7th, I had great difficulty expressing my pain, ...
Rupert Brooke, Charles Sorley, Julian Grenfell, Isaac Rosenberg, Wilfred Owen, and Edward Thomas have in common at least the fact that they were English poets born sometime between 1875 and 1895 — and ...
War often reduces entire cultures and countries to one over-simplified narrative, particularly in the domain of news. Ukraine was first invaded by Russia in 2014, and then again in 2022, and that ...
Nowell Oxland died in World War One before he could see his poems published [Provost and Fellows of Worcester College, Oxford] Two women have saved a war poet's work from being lost - twice over and ...