But in the decades following the war, a very different kind of poem would come to be “seen as the truth,” as Max Egremont puts it in his new anthology Some Desperate Glory: The First World War the ...

The First World War was “one of the seminal moments of the twentieth century in which literate soldiers, plunged into inhuman conditions, reacted to their surroundings in poems”, writes ...

Trench poetry from World War I gave soldiers a way to express the dreams and nightmares of being on the front and caught in the drama of the battlefield. Out Sep. 23 from First Second Books, ...

Because of universal education, the First World War was a "literate" war. For the first time in history virtually all the soldiers who took part were able to read and write.

While the most memorable war poem in the literal sense must be credited to Blackadder’s Baldrick, the First World War – which ended 100 years ago this Sunday – produced some of the most ...

Ivor Gurney (1890–1937), a promising student of the English composer Charles Villiers Stanford, thought of music, not poetry, as his primary vocation.It was in the trenches in France during World War ...

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War is a writer’s medium. Even in the age of instant imaging, the lasting expressions of war are those expressed by soldiers who have lived the experience. One of them is Bill Glose, poet-editor ...

When she first started opened her business in 2019, Alma was met with a wall of skepticism. "People said, ‘you know why there is no other Poetry Pharmacy in the world? Because no one wants it ...

In the first few weeks of the First World War, the British Army requisitioned more than 120,000 horses to serve across the Channel. In four years of conflict, some eight million horses, donkeys ...