The Wilfred Owen Association

April 06th 2013 Joint Spring Meeting with the Siegfried Sassoon Fellowship

Speakers:

Dr Santanu Das (Kings College London)

'The Cambridge Companion to the First World War'

Christian Major (SSF committee), with special guest Simon Blow

'Sassoon and Tennant'

June 01st 2013 - June 02nd 2013 The Alliance of Literary Societies Literary Weekend 2013

A weekend of talks, tours and conversation about books and writers, centred on St Hilda's College, Oxford.

June 25th 2013 - July 12th 2013 Was it for this the Clay Grew Tall?

Was it for this the Clay Grew Tall? Words from War Requiem in a major new interpretation by Stephen Raw.

Exhibition to be opened by the Poet Laureate, Carol Ann Duffy, on 24 June
Featured exhibition of the City of London Festival, 25 June – 12 July 2013
2013: Year-long centenary celebrations of Benjamin Britten
Exhibition synchronises with The City of London Festival’s performance of War Requiem in St Paul’s Cathedral, 25 June, by the City of Birmingham Symphony Orchestra – who gave the work its 1962 première in Coventry Cathedral - with German, Russian and English soloists.

July 01st 2013 - July 06th 2013 Bullets and Daffodils by Dean Johnson

Dean Johnson's rock interpretation of Wilfred Owen's poetry comes to the West End in July. A special ticket price is available to WOA members.

September 17th 2013 - October 15th 2013 T S Eliot Prize for Poetry 20th Anniversary Tour

The Poetry Book Society has announced that it will be running a ten venue national tour to celebrate the 20th anniversary of the first T S Eliot Prize, set up in 1993 to mark its 40th anniversary and to honour its founding poet.

September 30th 2013 Dannie Abse's 90th birthday meal

Yr Academi Gymreig is organising a meal to celebrate Dannie Abse’s 90th birthday.

November 02nd 2013 2013 AGM and Dominic Hibberd Memorial Event

This year The Wilfred Owen Association AGM will be held at St Anne’s College, Oxford. In the afternoon there will be a memorial event to commemorate our much-loved Vice President, Dominic Hibberd, who sadly died last year.

November 04th 2013 Annual commemoration of Wilfred Owen's death

Annual homage to Wilfred Owen in Ors, France.

18h   Rassemblement Place de L'eglise
18h30   Ceremonie au cimetiere municipal
19h   Reception a la salle des fetes
20h   Lectures et concert a L'eglise

November 09th 2013 Isaac Rosenberg Lecture by IRSAC

Isaac Rosenberg: from ‘Break of Day in the Trenches’ to the German Spring Offensive 1918.

Lecture presented by IRSAC, in association with IWM London.

November 10th 2013 Britten's War Requiem at the Royal Albert Hall

Benjamin Britten’s War Requiem interweaves the poetry of Wilfred Owen with the Requiem Mass, creating a work that mourned the dead and pleaded the futility of war. Performed by the BBC Symphony Orchestra, massed choir and soloists, it is one of the twentieth century’s defining works.

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