The First World War was “one of the seminal moments of the twentieth century in which literate soldiers, plunged into inhuman conditions, reacted to their surroundings in poems”, writes ...

Siegfried Sassoon chronicled experiences of First World War in ... as well as two poetry notebooks from 1916-18 containing rough drafts and fair copies of some of his best-known war poems. ...

THE heartache suffered by relatives who lost loved ones on the bloody battlefields of the First World War has been revealed in a series poems they wrote and published online today.

Children’s World War One poems mark National Poetry Day 29 August 2016. Children from schools in Masterton have joined with local author and illustrator and author Michelle O’Connell in ...

In the second episode of this series of The Essay, first broadcast in 2024, he talked with presenter Olivia O'Leary about his World War 1 poems, many of which were inspired by his own father's ...

This is not a poem about war, but it has been conjured before in relation to the trauma of war. In Ford Madox Ford’s novel of the First World War Parade’s End , the hero, Tietjens, sees the ...

Can revisiting the pain in the poems of the First World War remind us of the value of peace? Is it possible that we have found solace in their words, and our angst found a vent in their voice?

Actors Jake Morgan and Sam Ducane extend their hands to catch poppies, as they pose for photographs at the launch of the 1918 Poppy Pledge in a re-creation of a First World War trench at Pollock ...

In a 2024 interview, the late Belfast poet Michael Longley talks with Olivia O'Leary about his World War 1 poetry, which was inspired by his father's experience. Show more The Irish poet Michael ...