Behind Their Lines

TW Culbertson's photo of the Western Front While few have heard of Mary Borden -- a nurse, memoirist, and poet of the First World...

Poetry is best when it is heard (and not read):  listen to Carol Ann Duffy’s "Last Post"  (read by Vicky McClure).  The t...

From the small Devonshire village of Topsham (population approximately 5,000), 69 men died in the First World War.  (Here's  a link to...

Next to Wilfred Owen, Siegfried Sassoon is perhaps the most recognized poet of the First World War.  His poem "Glory of Women...

Is it possible that the most iconic poem of the Great War, Wilfred Owen’s “Dulce et Decorum Est” is about more than war?   The poem very cl...

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...