First World War Poetry
War Poetry Today
Remembrance poetry
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Wilfred Owen, the poet generally
regarded as the greatest writer of war poetry in the English
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Minds at
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A comprehensive anthology of poetry of the First World War. All the greatest war poems of Wilfred Owen and Siegfried Sassoon and war poems of over 70 other notable poets. All set in the context of the poets' lives and historical records. With historic photographs and cartoons. Edited by David Roberts. 400 pages £14-99 (UK) |
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Modern War Poetry
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NEWS
The list of modern war poetry sections is further down this page. Click here to get there fast. 2011 was the year of Arab uprisings - a time of hope and tragedy, (tragedy especially in Syria). The oppression of Palestinians in their own lands continues.From events in the Arab Spring only events in Egypt brought poems to this website. Many excellent poems were added to the WarPoetryWritersZone pages (see below) and further excellent poems came in for the Remembrance page and the 2011 page.
2012 Falklands War Poetry - NEW BOOK to be published in March by Saxon BooksThe book will include many poems that can already be seen on this website on the Falklands pages with additional poems from the Falklands and Argentina - David Roberts, Editor, The War Poetry Website.
Heroes, 100 poems from
the new generation of war poets.
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Published November 2011
Enduring Freedom, An
Afghan Anthology, edited by Ryan Gearing. Published
by FireStep Press, £12 - with £2 from every book going
to the charity Combat Stress. |
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The pages of this website devoted to war poems of today are
listed below this introduction.
They include poems of the wars in Iraq, Afghanistan, Kosovo,
Falklands, Vietnam, Africa and the Israel/Palestine conflict.
There are
remembrance
poems, peace poems and anti-war poems too.
The contemporary war poetry on this website expresses a wide variety of views,
experience and insights. Each poet has his or her own
distinctive voice. Today's war poets are people involved in
warfare, affected by it or concerned about its affects.
New poems can now instantly be added by poets. /span> See WARpoetrywritersZONE below or click here. Readers of modern war poetry will see some of the very latest poems here.
Issues of war and peace
The Issues index page provides links to
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background information,
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videos,
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discussions of war, peace, politics, international relations, and international law relating to war.
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The views of Tony Blair, a former Nuremberg prosecutor and a former Assistant Secretary General of the United Nations and others can be read here.
Most countries do not indulge in warfare. It is a matter of concern and distress to many people in the world that a significant handful of countries, often in defiance of United Nations' principles, are almost constantly at war, either overtly, or through the support and provocation of others.
Clickable Links to pages on this website
War Poetry Today
2012 war poetry coming soon!
2011 War Poems
and poem videos
2010 War Poems
2009 War Poems
2008 War Poems
2007 War Poems
2006 War Poems
Afghanistan War Poems
Africa War Poems
Asia (war poems from)
Australia (war poems from)
Falklands War Poetry
Falklands War Poetry by Bernie Bruen
Falklands War - Graham Cordwell
Iraq War Videos
Iraq - the start of the war - 2003
War Poems
Iraq 2004 War Poems
Iraq and other war poems early
2005
Iraq and other war poems later 2005
Iraq later war poems have been added to
other yearly collections
Israel - War Poems, Elisha Porat
Israel - The persecution of the Jews,
War Poems
Israel attacks
Gaza Strip, War Poems
Japan (war poems from)
Kosovo War, War Poems
Middle East, War Poems
Northern Ireland, War Poems
Palestine, War Poems
Remembrance Poems
Second World War poetry
Sierra Leone War, War Poems
Vietnam War, War Poems
Individual contemporary war poets
Poems by
Curt Bennett (US)
Michael Brett
Bernie Bruen, Falklands
Graham Cordwell, Falklands
Thomas Crofts
Cheryl L Daytec
(Philippines - Some Palestine poems)
Maria Deyana
Maureen Jones (about First
World War)
Danny Martin
Elisha Porat (Israel)
Marguerite Rami
Penny Rock (US)
Ann-Marie Spittle
Poems by Mike Subritzky
(NZ)
Books of war poetry and for writers of war poetry. Books about recent wars and the politics of war and peace.
Video Pages
Videos about the Iraq War 2003 - the bombing
Background to the Iraq War - Videos
Poetry videos can be found on the Northern Ireland page, the Palestine page and the 2011 page.
Suheir Hammad - See her video speaking her poem, What I will. (An expression of a determination to dissociate herself from what the 9/11 criminals did and everything they stood for. A modern statement of pacifism.)
War Poetry website developments 2011
30 December
Forthcoming book of Falklands War poetry
announced.
New book of war
poetry
Heroes, 100 poems from the new
generation of war poets.
Read review.
More news on the new War Poetry News page.
(November 2011)
Surge in the number of visitors to the warpoetry website, November 2011. More . . .
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November
New poems have recently
been added to the 2011 and Remembrance pages.
23 July
Iraq War -
what really happened - Script of YouTube video by David Roberts
Poem Death of a Hero
by Steve Carlsen added to the Remembrance page
18 July Iraq war statistics page was added. See Issues of war and peace above or go to the Issues page.
17 July Remembrance page was made easier to navigate with clickable links to the many poems
16 July The words of a new Remembrance hymn/poem by Charles Henrywood were added
5 May New poems added from Cheryl L Daytec of the Philippines. Access through the list of contemporary war poets above.
4 May Details
of a new opportunity for writers of war poetry to
contribute to a new book have been added.
Click here for more
information.
A newly
discovered poem of the First World War from Australia has been
added to the 2011 page.
14 March A page of poems that became detached from the website has been re-designed and re-united with the website - "2007 war poems". Please see list above for the link.
17 February Three video poems about the Egyptian Revolution - two recorded on the streets of Cairo.
16 February
Add your war
poetry
- New poems can now instantly be added by
poets. Go to
WARpoetrywritersZONE.
Only WAR poems, please. Poems on other topics will be deleted.
What many people dare not tell you
- video of
Former President of the United States
and Nobel Peace Prize
Winner, Jimmy Carter, can be seen in a video speaking on the
suffering of the Palestinians on our Israel/Palestine videos
page.
January 2011
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Videos showing
the bombing of Baghdad,
Baghdad before the bombing and US soldiers taking the law into
their own hands in Iraq - and a page of
videos about the causes,
excuses, lies and effects of the war against Iraq. (Links
above.)
The Issues section has a short
article about religious tolerance in Britain by Lord Sacks, the
Chief Rabbi.
January 2011 in the Issues section/strong> is a
discussion by Francis Clark-Lowes of the nature of war and peace
and the practical problems regarding the achievement of peace.
The design and content of this website
continues to improve. One of the latest war
related page is our page of quotations about war, peace, and
human conflict.. We have our first poems from Australia
and poems from Northern Ireland. The Wilfred Owen pages - last
updated in 1999 - are being redesigned.
The War Poetry website popularity It is number one in Google for war poetry. The War Poetry website is gaining in popularity. On Remembrance Day, 11 November 2010, there were 25,470 visitors.
Video of former Nuremberg Prosecutor speaking on the illegality of the NATO bombing of Kosovo From ISSUES (in the left column) you can access the Kosovo page where you can access this unique video. It's a truly historic statement by the late Walter Rockler recorded at the request of the editor in 2000. It is available here for the first time since we placed the video on YouTube in October 2010.
This website was last updated
26 January 2012
David Roberts, Editor, The
War Poetry website. More . . .
See panel top left for contact link.
This home
page of the War Poetry Website may be freely copied for any purpose.