The pilot poet Jeffrey Day
Even if most of the poems written by the soldier poets of the Great War deal with the fighting in the trenches of northern France, it...
Pale Blue Dot by Carl Sagan
Not directly related to poetry of the First World War for once! But I used this photo and text, entitled "A Pale Blue Dot", to end my...
Conference at the Lycée Watteau in Valenciennes
A big thank you to the headmaster, staff and pupils at the Lycée Watteau in Valenciennes for hosting my first ever conference on poetry...
Humour and Simple Pleasures
In the midst of the atrocities and violence of combat, the soldiers of the Great War still sometimes managed to find something to smile...
My first conference
Quite excited to be giving my first conference this week! I'll be speaking to students at the Lycée Watteau in Valenciennes from 2 pm on...
