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Poetry of the First World War at Haileybury College

  • Post author:The War Poets Assocication
  • Post published:August 30, 2014
  • Post category:Events/News & Events

I am organising a Sixth Form Conference on ‘Poetry of the First World War’ at Haileybury College on Friday the 17th of October. Adrian Barlow and Simon Armitage are confirmed…

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Enduring War: Grief, Grit and Humour

  • Post author:The War Poets Assocication
  • Post published:July 19, 2014
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British Library free foyer exhibition Enduring War: Grief Grit and Humour on until 12 October. It includes key war poet manuscripts from Binyon, (In Memoriam) Owen (the poetry is in…

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For King and Country? The Jewish Experience of the First World War

  • Post author:The War Poets Assocication
  • Post published:July 19, 2014
  • Post category:Events

Located at the Jewish Museum Raymond Burton House 129-131 Albert Street, NW1 7NB For more information: http://www.jewishmuseum.org.uk/ until 10 August -(entry fee) it includes a section on Isaac Rosenberg.

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Winchester Poetry Festival

  • Post author:The War Poets Assocication
  • Post published:July 10, 2014
  • Post category:Events

The very first Winchester Poetry Festival takes places on Friday 12th, Saturday 13th and Sunday 14th September 2014.  There is a full programme of events including workshops, close readings and main…

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A commemoration of the life and work of Isaac Rosenberg

  • Post author:The War Poets Assocication
  • Post published:June 26, 2014
  • Post category:Events/News & Events

Free Public Event:  National Portrait Gallery Friday 6:30pm 27 June 2014 Concordia Foundation - to view the full colour flyer click here Gillian Humphreys presents. The Ballad of Whitechapel: A commemoration…

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The Dark Earth & The Light Sky by Nick Dear

  • Post author:The War Poets Assocication
  • Post published:June 20, 2014
  • Post category:Events

On 25, 26, 27, 28, 30 June and 1 and 2 July there is a production of the excellent play about Edward Thomas - The Dark Earth & The Light…

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Conference: British Poetry of the First World War

  • Post author:The War Poets Assocication
  • Post published:June 2, 2014
  • Post category:Events/News & Events

The programme includes chaired discussions, 17 panel sessions and over 50 speakers, with keynotes from Edna Longley and Jay Winter.  The conference patron, Jon Stallworthy, is guest of honour at…

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The Death of Innocence Tour to Flanders, 25 – 28 October 2014

  • Post author:The War Poets Assocication
  • Post published:April 9, 2014
  • Post category:Events/News/News & Events

The Death of Innocence Tour 25 - 28 October 2014 A study tour that contrasts the jubilation of August 1914 as expressed by Rupert Brooke in ‘Now God be Thanked’ with…

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Isaac Rosenberg Events

  • Post author:The War Poets Assocication
  • Post published:February 2, 2014
  • Post category:Events

Upcoming events at which Isaac Rosenberg is the principle subject. View the list as a PDF 

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11 Nov 2021

"Requiem" by Ivor Gurney

Pour out your light, O stars, and do not hold
Your loveliest shining from earth's outworn shell -
Pure and cold your radiance, pure and cold
My dead friend's face as well.

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10 Oct 2021

This is, alas, my farewell posting of WWI poems. Starting with Owen for the WOA in March 2020, then continuing daily for WPA, with Gurney, women poets, and a host of almost unknown poets, whose dedication to their country deserves recognition. Anyone else to take up the baton?

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9 Oct 2021

After Eton and Oxford, Edward de Stein, who wrote "Bingo our Trench Dog", rose to the rank of Major, serving on the Western Front for all WWI

“To a Skylark Behind Our Trenches”

Thou little voice! Thou happy sprite
How didst thou gain the air and light—
That sing'st so merrily?

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8 Oct 2021

“War and Peace”
by Edgell Rickword

In sodden trenches I have heard men speak,
Though numb and wretched, wise and witty things;
And loved them for the stubbornness that clings
Longest to laughter when Death's pulleys creak;

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7 Oct 2021

Rickword joined the Artist Rifles as soon as he became 18, in 1916, won the MC and wrote war poetry. In 1919 he lost an eye through septicaemia, then went up to Oxford, but left after four terms to get married.

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