The Poetry Hour: The Poetry of The First World War

Name: The Poetry Hour: The Poetry of The First World War
Start: 2026-11-12T19:00:00+00:00
Location: British Library

British Library

96 Euston Road

Thu 12 Nov · 19:00 · £16

London

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Some of the finest and most moving poetry in the English language was written during The Great War of 1914 – 1918.This programme of readings by leading actors was curated by the late novelist and poetry anthologist Josephine Hart. It is a rich and varied selection of timeless poems from the Great War, both timeless and lesser known; and includes works by Rupert Brooke, Edward Thomas, W.B. Yeats, Helen Mackay, Claude Burton, Siegfried Sassoon, Wilfred Owen, Edmund Blunden, Gilbert Frankau, Herbert Read, Philip Johnstone, Rose Macaulay, Isaac Rosenberg, Captain Cyril Morton Horne, Vera Brittain, Eleanor Farjeon, Margaret Postgate Cole, Alfred Noyes, May Wedderburn Cannan and Rudyard Kipling.The readers will be announced in the coming weeks.Presented by The Josephine Hart Poetry Foundation in association with the British Library and the Eccles Institute for the Americas at the British Library.

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