News

On this Veterans Day, we celebrate the poetry of World War I, one of the legacies of that conflict. Enlarge this image English poet Rupert Chawner Brooke died of dysentery aboard a troop ship ...
The war diaries of the poet Siegfried Sassoon have been made available online for the very first time. Penned in the trenches of WWI and still bearing some of the mud of the Somme when they were ...
The trenches of World War One have been recreated in a Monmouthshire wood for an open-air play marking the centenary of the conflict. Mametz tells the story of one of the bloodiest battles of the ...
Blackfriars Repertory Theatre and The Storm Theatre Company will present the world premiere of Death Comes for the War Poets, a dramatic verse tapestry by Joseph Pearce. The production, which will ...
A memorial to Scottish World War One poets has been unveiled in Edinburgh's Makars' Court. The granite Celtic cross is designed to ensure that the "poetic words and warnings of war will echo into ...
Britain's War poets: the finest introduction to poetry. There's no better time than this centenary year to look back at the stunning poetry written after the outbreak of World War One, says Laura ...
The trenches of World War One have been recreated in a Monmouthshire wood for an open-air play marking the centenary of the conflict. Mametz tells the story of one of the bloodiest battles of the ...