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 ...

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.

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 ...

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 ...

The centenary of World War One means the work of the British war poets has been much quoted of late. But the reputation of writers critical of the war, such as Siegfried Sassoon and Wilfred Owen ...

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?

Here are two poems that reflect the mood of the world at this time. They were written in the middle twentieth century and talk about war at a time when war seized the consciousness of the world.

Without a word, McCrae, who later died of pneumonia (January 28, 1918), walked over to Allinson and handed him the poem, which he went on to describe as an accurate portrayal of the carnage and ...

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 ...