Not since the first world war has there been anything approaching the quality and quantity of work by poets who are also combatants.
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British poet Wilfred Owen told readers there is no peace for the dying soldier until we fight against the lie that it is sweet and proper to die for one’s country.
From speaking out over domestic abuse in medieval times to telling the realities of war, these female poets present a very different version of Welsh life.
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A podcast on World War I – from a meeting between the three great war poets, to what happened to conscientious objectors in both Britain and Germany.
Dead at 25, a week before World War I ended, Owen summed up the conflict’s waste and futility.
How academic sleuthing uncovered the Edinburgh setting for a historic meeting of three of the greatest war poets
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