Death of Innocence TriptychReminders predellaMemorials predellaThe French PanelBritish PanelThe German Panel Oil Paintings By John Fisher (2015) The triptych was inspired by listening to poetry readings, information gathering and…
Poets have written about the experience of war since the Greeks, but the young soldier poets of the First World War established war poetry as a literary genre. Their combined…
Writer and Daily Mail columnist Bel Mooney participated once more in the WPA's Poetry Battlefields Tour to the Western Front last month, October 2018, one of a series of tours organised by…
'Just follow the Old Kent Road' I said to the driver at Victoria. It seemed pertinent when thinking of the men who marched out of London, from the quartermaster's store. Equipped as…
At Tous les Saints, 31st Octobre, a stone was laid at the grave of Richard Aldington.It marks the culmination of a two year project, and it was sited at Sury…
On Friday 25th October, MESH Theatre are staging a one-off performance of The Soldier by Rachel Wagstaff. This 'captivating' one act play is based on the life of Rupert Brooke…
Please click on the following link to read the Chairman's 2019 letter and details of how to subscribe to the WPA or renew your existing annual membership: Chairman's Letter 2019,…
During the recent battlefields tour The World's Worst Wound, the final tour in a series designed to commemorate the centenary of the First World War and the Armistice which ended it,…
A nationwide beach event organised by director Danny Boyle to commemorate the centenary of the end of the First World War will take place tomorrow, 11 November, Armistice Day. Danny…
Work on the First World War nurse Mary Borden by the WPA's founding President Professor Paul O'Prey, who edited a first published collection of Mary Borden's poems, published recently by…