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Oxford University Podcasts: ‘British’ World War One Poetry: An Introduction

  • Post author:Mike Scott
  • Post published:March 5, 2018
  • Post category:News

This series was produced as part of the University of Oxford, Faculty of English Spring School (3-5 April 2014) and is aimed at members of the public, particularly those who…

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First Published Collection of Mary Borden’s Poems

  • Post author:The War Poets Assocication
  • Post published:February 20, 2018
  • Post category:News/News & Events

Mary Borden Poems of Love and War edited by Paul O’Prey (Dare-Gale Press) Suffragette, socialite, novelist, nurse, Mary Borden wrote some of the most remarkable poems of the First World…

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Songs Of War – 25th January 2018

  • Post author:The War Poets Assocication
  • Post published:January 2, 2018
  • Post category:Events/News/News & Events

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Exhibition celebrating The CWGC’s First 100 Years

  • Post author:The War Poets Assocication
  • Post published:June 16, 2017
  • Post category:Events/News/News & Events

To mark the centenary of the CWGC’s foundation by Royal Charter in 1917, a ground-breaking exhibition is being staged at CWGC Brookwood Military Cemetery near Woking, Surrey. It was officially…

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Edward Thomas: A Life In Pictures by Richard Emeny

  • Post author:The War Poets Assocication
  • Post published:March 27, 2017
  • Post category:News/News & Events

EDWARD THOMAS: A LIFE IN PICTURES, by Richard Emeny In June 2017, Enitharmon Press will be publishing the long awaited illustrated biography of Edward Thomas by the Edward Thomas Fellowship’s…

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Under The Same Moon: Edward Thomas and the English Lyric (Edna Longley)

  • Post author:The War Poets Assocication
  • Post published:March 27, 2017
  • Post category:News/News & Events

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…

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Timothy Corsellis Poetry Prize 2016

  • Post author:The War Poets Assocication
  • Post published:September 15, 2016
  • Post category:News/News & Events

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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Robert Graves: The war poet who cheated death

  • Post author:The War Poets Assocication
  • Post published:July 26, 2016
  • Post category:News/News & Events

Follow this link to see this article, published by the Daily Telegraph: http://www.telegraph.co.uk/men/thinking-man/my-father-robert-graves-the-war-poet-who-cheated-death/?WTmcid=tmgoff_soc_spf_fb&WT.mc_id=sf31585123  

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Jon Stallworthy

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

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…

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Thought for the week

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

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…

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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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