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 ...

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 ...

World War One poem, In Flanders Fields, spelt out in poppies at locations in ... A trade deal, a family photo and the Middle East - Trump's short G7. Subsection. US & Canada. Published. 18 hours ago.

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

The short-war illusion did not end in 1914. :: Professor David Stevenson is the author of With Our Backs To The Wall: Victory And Defeat in 1918, and 1914-1918: The History Of The First World War.

Here’s a look at some of the finest examples of poetry from the Second World War: High Flight by John Gillespie Magee. Of the poets on this list, the one who evokes the dream-like, romantic ...

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?

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 ...