War's Hell!
In order to describe the realities of the violence and suffering of the Great War to the population which had stayed behind in England,...
The Realities of the Conflict
Some of the bloodiest battles of the First World War took place between 1915 and 1916. At the end of April 1915, the Germans used gas...
War and Cricket
Given England’s long and rich sporting heritage, it seems natural that the theme of sport was often used in war poetry from 1914 onwards...
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...
