Charles Sorley
If 1915 marked a major change in the sentiments expressed by poetry to the Great War—a move from a patriotic call to arms in the battle...
Rupert Brooke
It is clear that Rupert Brooke’s poems made a major impact in Britain at the beginning of the First World War. Brooke was a pure product...
Article published in "La Voix du Nord" in June 2014
Villeneuve-d’Ascq: Simon Davies pays a moving tribute to all the soldier poets of the First World War Published on 21/06/2014 Franck...
Wilfred Owen's gravestone
Wilfred Owen's gravestone in the communal cemetery in Ors, France. He was killed on 4th November 1918, just one week from the armistice,...
My Book: "The Hell Where Youth and Laughter Went"
Rupert Brooke, Robert Graves, Wilfred Owen, Isaac Rosenberg ... so many names that have become inextricably linked to the vast output of...
A Noble Cause?
A major consequence of the First World War was the number of British soldiers feeling the need to express themselves through poetry,...
