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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

'Where Are All the War Poets? Poetry of the Second World War.' WPA/IWM Event at the IWM London, Monday 2 November, 2009

Speakers Jon Stallworthy, Fran Brearton and Owen Sheers with WPA President Paul O'Prey and actors Imogen Stubbs and Art Malik at the WPA/IWM event 'Where Are All the War Poets?", held at the Imperial War Museum on 2 November 2009.

Poet and writer Owen Sheers, presenter of the recent TV series ‘A Poet’s Guide to Britain’ on BBC4, joined John Stallworthy (University of Oxford) and Fran Brearton (Queen’s University, Belfast) at the Imperial War Museum, London, on the evening of Monday 2 November 2009 to explore the poetry of the Second World War: – the poets, their influences and their legacy.

WPA President Professor Paul O’Prey of Roehampton University chaired the evening. Actors Art Malik and Imogen Stubbs read the poems.


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