Another excellent new First World War attraction, honouring the life and work of poet Wilfred Owen, has opened near Ors, where he was killed the week before the war ended in November 1918.

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In this sympathetic biography, the author describes Wilfred Owen’s development from a child in a lower-middle-class family in Edwardian England into a modern poet who would win the admiration ...

Wilfred Owen, war poet. Wilfred Owen was born in Shropshire in 1893. At school, he liked drama and poetry and started writing his own poems when he was a teenager. He worked as an assistant to a ...

Just a brief mention in the local paper then of the death of Wilfred Owen, and no mention at all of his poetry. And this was the poet considered by some to be the greatest of the Great War.

In its place, came the visceral rage of poems like Wilfred Owen’s “Dulce et Decorum Est”, which described marching in a row of broken down “blood-shod” soldiers and watching the ...

Grace Freeman from the Wilfred Owen Association with the bugle the poet took from a dead German soldier The centenary of the death of World War One poet Wilfred Owen was marked on Sunday with the ...

Wilfred Owen (d. 1918) has become one of the famous casualties of World War I. Killed in action at twenty-five, a week before the Armistice that ended the war, he seems to have been born to fulfill ...

La Maison Forestiere near the village of Ors is the place where British war poet Wilfred Owen spent his last night in 1918. Crammed into the house's dank cellar with 30 men, Owen wrote what would be ...

The winner of the first Wilfred Owen international poetry competition will be announced at the inaugural Winchester Poetry Festival, which will run from 12th – 14th September. The competition is ...

The Oscar winning actor Sir Daniel Day-Lewis has read seven of Wilfred Owen's seminal war poems to help relaunch a Scottish university's war poet collections. Day-Lewis has recited the poems for ...

Wilfred Owen, the war poet “I am greatly looking forward to reading the winning entry.” The best poem will be chosen by the public from a shortlist of five, and be read by the Duke of ...