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Reading at Craiglockhart

20/11/2010 Reading at Craiglockhart

To celebrate the first anniversary of The Mark Wright Project, Harry Potter star Jason Isaacs will read Owen and Sassoon poems at the former Craiglockhart Hospital, Edinburgh.

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Strange Meetings: The Poets of the Great War

02/12/2010 Strange Meetings: The Poets of the Great War

The cultural impact of the Great War continues to be felt, especially in poetry. Harry Ricketts, author of Strange Meetings, looks at the actual encounters, or near-encounters between the war poets and the influence they had on each other, including Sassoon, Rupert Brooke, Wilfred Owen, Edward Thomas, Ivor Gurney, David Jones, Vera Brittain and Roland Leighton, Robert Graves, Isaac Rosenberg (born in Bristol), Robert Nicols and Edmund Blunden.

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Bullets and Bunting, Christmas In The Trenches

15/12/2010 Bullets and Bunting, Christmas In The Trenches

Christ Church in Oxton, Wirral (where Wilfred Owen attended Sunday school), is to play host to a Christmas version of Dean Johnson's "Bullets and Daffodils", the musical based on his life.

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Michael Longley reading

02/03/2011 Michael Longley reading

A celebration of Michael Longley's new collection "A Hundred Doors", with a reading followed by a discussion with Colette Bryce, who chairs the event. 

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Holding Hands at Paschendale

02/03/2011 - 27/03/2011 Holding Hands at Paschendale

Based on the true experiences of his grandfather, Martin Lynch’s acclaimed play follows the lives of two men during the Third Battle of Paschendale in 1917.

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