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 ...

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 ...

Some of the first haiku written in French — some of the first haiku written in the West — resulted from this poetry workshop at the turn of the century. When World War I broke out in 1914, Vocance was ...

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 ...

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 ...