UNDER THE SAME MOON: EDWARD THOMAS AND THE ENGLISH LYRIC, by Edna Longley A hundred years ago Edward Thomas was killed in the Battle of Arras (April 1917). The reputation…
Closing Date is 15th Septemeber Entrants must be 25 or Under ‘War poetry’ is a phrase that, for many of us, brings to mind the lines of Wilfred Owen…
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January 18th 1935-November 19 2014 The death of Jon Stallworthy has saddened all who knew him, and all who knew his work. His numerous books – his acclaimed biography of…
Take up our quarrel with the foe: To you from failing hands we throw The torch; be yours to hold it high… From In Flanders Fields by Lt-Col John…
Carcanet have recently announced the publication of War Poet, selected poems by the Wilfred Owen Poetry Award winner Jon Stallworthy and Fall In, Ghosts: War Prose by Edmund Blunden, edited by…
Stephen Tyler, founder and musical director of Reading A440 Choir, has composed choral settings of "Anthem for Doomed Youth", "Futility" and "The Next War". He has posted a video on…
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…