Essential
What is War Poetry?
Poets
Keith Barnes Edmund Blunden Rupert Brooke Wilfred Wilson Gibson Robert Graves Julian Grenfell T.E. Hulme David Jones Sidney Keyes Alun Lewis Michael Longley John Masefield Harold Monro Sir Henry Newbolt Maresuke Nogi Wilfred Owen John Pudney Isaac Rosenberg Siegfried Sassoon Vernon Scannell Edward Thomas Georg Trakl Arthur Graeme West

Electronic 'Preview' of War Poetry Review 2010 Published

 

  

The 2010 issue of the WPA's Journal: War Poetry Review is now available in electronic format. It will be published shortly in print and sent to all members. View the List of Contents here. If you are a subscribing annual member and would like access to the electronic edition now, please e-mail journal@warpoets.org. Passwords are being sent to all honorary and life members.

War Poetry Review 2010 is a lively and substantial issue. In addition to the articles there is a review by Tim Kendall of Elizabeth Vandiver’s book on classical influences in First World War poetry, which she also spoke about at the Robert Graves Conference in Mallorca in July. This is an expanded version of a piece that first appeared on Professor Kendall's War Poetry Blog. The issue also has wartime (First World War) poems by one of France’s most eminent poets, Claude Vigée, especially translated by the translator and publisher Anthony Rudolf (who, incidentally, chaired a recent Rosenberg conference at Toynbee Hall in London).

Isaac Rosenberg’s letter to Paul Nash illustrates Jean Liddiard’s article, and there are six illustrations in the article about the First World War Poetry Digital Archive: Rosenberg and Graves manuscripts, a letter by Gurney, and a photo of Sassoon, Blunden and Dennis Silk together ar Heytesbury.