So why, after all these years, do we see Wilfred Owen’s poetry as a defining image of World War One? A select group of well-educated soldier officers, including Wilfred Owen, came to view the ...

Even decorated war heroes were now wondering what they’d risked their lives for. In 1917 one of them, the poet Siegfried Sassoon went public with his doubts about the war. In the trenches his ...

Meath man Francis Ledwidge brought his words to war in a way that has inspired others Francis Ledwidge was an unusual war poet - a British soldier, an Irish nationalist and a man of peasant ...

Poetry serves as evidence: of other lives, of our times. In its purest form, poetry can be the most direct journalism—a laser beam of information, unfiltered from writer to reader. For decades ...

Peter Daborn said it was a "poignant" time to market the house in Oswestry The birthplace of war poet Wilfred Owen has ... the trench warfare of World War One firsthand. Injured in 1917, he ...