Behind Their Lines

Recently, I’ve been thinking a lot about the ways in which “war poetry” and “WWI poetry” are labels that suggest that these poems are only ...

The poetry of World War I often caricatures the women at home as naive jingoists: Sassoon’s poem “The Glory of Women” says, “You wors...

Before television and radio, there was poetry.  In The Great War and Modern Memory , describing the world of 1914, Fussell asserts, “Exce...

"The floors are slippery with blood." These are the words that begin Edith Sitwell's poem “The Dancers: During a Great Batt...

 St James Park in London, sitting between Buckingham Palace and Whitehall, is hosting a temporary photography exhibit by Michael St Maur Sh...

Those were the words in 1917 used by Lieutenant Colonel Alan Dawnay to describe military operations in the Hejaz, and that description ca...