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A performance of Benjamin Britten's War Requiem, with readings of Wilfred Owen's Poems.
The Oswestry Festival of the Word, aka OsLitFest, is a fabulous celebration of the written, spoken and sung.
Once again, there will be events about Wilfred Owen.
A service will be held at Shrewsbury Abbey on March 17th to mark the 20th anniversary of the installation of Symmetry, the memorial to Wilfred Owen in the grounds of the Abbey. The event will also celebrate Owen's birthday.
Poets including Sassoon, Owen, Graves, Rosenberg, and Gurney will be considered along with the women poets from WW1, as well as Irish and "Empire" poets from the period, in the second spring school run by Oxford University's English Faculty.
Speakers:
Dr Santanu Das (Kings College London)
'The Cambridge Companion to the First World War'
Christian Major (SSF committee), with special guest Simon Blow
'Sassoon and Tennant'
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