Behind Their Lines

Poetry of the Great War

Thursday, January 29, 2026

Sea Warfare

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Lord Horatio Nelson British maritime poems of the First World War frequently called upon the  naval heroes of Britain’s past to inspire the ...
Friday, January 31, 2025

The Cheerful Lie

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Käthe Kollwitz, "The Mothers" Although best known for her Anne of Green Gables fiction series, L.M. Montgomery was first publishe...
Wednesday, January 29, 2025

"To Women" by Laurence Binyon

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The Sisters , by Edmund Dulac IWM ART 2059 One of the best-known English poems of the First World War is one of the earliest written: Lauren...
Thursday, January 16, 2025

Under a Bloodred Sky

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  Austrian troops advancing in the  Carpathians (image from Library of Congress) “How many of you have had the pleasure of seeing your own g...
Wednesday, June 12, 2024

Wonderful, terrible days

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Lindisfarne Castle on Holy Island Poetry of the Great War can turn up in the most unlikely of places.  If you watch the tides of the Northum...
Friday, April 5, 2024

A singing star in time's abyss

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Edward Thomas On the first day of the battle of Arras, April 9, 1917, Edward Thomas was killed by an artillery shell. He had arrived in Fran...
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Wednesday, March 6, 2024

Bondage

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Arthur Lewis Jenkins Photo by Auxiliary Portrait Studio, Westminster Arthur Lewis Jenkins joined the British Army in September of 1914 and w...
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