Next Conference!
On Tuesday 18th November starting at 12.30, I'll be giving a lunchtime conference to staff and students at the Ecole Centrale de Lille on...
"Dulce et Decorum Est", Wilfred Owen
There is no doubt that the most famous soldier poet of the First World War is Wilfred Owen. A close friend of another poet fighting in...
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...
Living Conditions in the Trenches
Given the unique nature of fighting in the trenches during the Great War, and the extreme living conditions for the soldiers, it goes...
