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1 How Short Can a Short Poem Be? One of the most celebrated Christian epigrams is this: Betwixt the stirrup and the ground, Mercy I… Julian Thompson
2 Sarah Howe - Artefacts of Writing In her exquisite first collection, Sarah Howe explores a dual heritage, journeying back to Hong… Peter D McDonald
3 Tracy K. Smith - Artefacts of Writing We hold these truths to be self-evident, that all men are created equal 1. Who owns these words?… Peter D McDonald
4 An Introduction to Teaching Wilfred Owen Wilfred Owen has always been one of my favourite writers to teach, because his poetry is like a… Lucy Freeland
5 Wilfred Owen: Resonances Owen's enduring legacy comes in a variety of shapes and forms, from Benjamin Britten's War Requiem… Brigitte Friant-Kessler
6 Owen's influence on Carol Ann Duffy Carol Ann Duffy's poem "An Unseen" depicts a soldier going off to war, but we don't know which war… Marcy Tanter
7 "The Poetry is in the Pity": Wilfred Owen and the Memory of the First World War A memorial to the poets of the First World War stands in the corner of Westminster Abbey. Inscribed… Vincent Trott
8 4-11 November 1918: Wilfred Owen and armistice Day in Memory and History In an early preface to his collected war poems, Wilfred Owen wrote of his work that "The subject of… Alex Nordlund
9 Wilfred Owen: The '60s Poet With the centenary of the first Armistice Day - and the centenary of Wilfred Owen's death a week… Harry Ricketts
10 Dulce et Decorum Est: Wilfred Owen’s Latin Wilfred Owen fought hard to learn Latin. He was acutely aware of the importance of the classical… Elizabeth Vandiver
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