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The Wilfred Owen Association is pleased and proud to announce that Gillian Clarke has agreed to accept the Wilfred Owen Poetry Award for 2012.
The Award presentation and AGM will take place at The Gateway Education & Arts Centre, Chester Street, Shrewsbury SY1 1NB on Saturday October 27th.
Tickets available on the door
Again the village of Ors and its surrounding Communes is commemorating Wilfred Owen. He was killed on the banks of the Sambre-Oise canal on a grey early morning on the 4th November.
May Sinclair is celebrated along with other female war poets at the Wilfred Owen Story, Birkenhead.
The Dark Earth and the Light Sky follows the life of the poet Edward Thomas, including his relationships with Robert Frost, Helen Thomas and Eleanor Farjeon.
The Wilfred Owen Association & IWM London present
Jean Moorcroft Wilson & Max Egremont
Max Egremont
THE LAST PHASE
How bad was the Allies’ position in the last months of 1917, after Ypres and Passchendaele? Was it possible to imagine defeat? Why was this transformed during 1918, after the huge German advances of the spring? Was there any truth in the Germans’ ‘stab in the back’ claim that politicians had betrayed a still defiant military? The roots of the catastrophe of the 1930s are already apparent in the last year of the First World War. But can they be traced further back, even to 1914?
Jean Moorcroft Wilson
FROM OWEN’S ‘DOOMED YOUTH’ TO HIS DOOMED YOUTH
Owen’s full flowering was a late one. Fertilized by his meeting with Sassoon at Craiglockhart War Hospital for Neurasthenic Officers in August 1917 and nurtured by his own experiences of the ‘pity of war’, it died with Owen himself in one of the last Allied engagements in November 1917, the Battle of the Sambre
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