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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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