The Wilfred Owen Association
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A panel discussion on the poetry of Geoffrey Studdert Kennedy (known as “Woodbine Willie”)
With Andrew Studdert Kennedy (Rural Dean of Marlborough and the poet’s grandson), Paul O’Prey (Vice-Chancellor, University of Roehampton and author of Poems from the Front) and Peter Howson (former army chaplain and author of Muddling Through: The Organisation of British Army Chaplaincy in World War One)
Chaired by John Hall (Dean of Westminster)
“A Dream of Wilfred Owen", by David Charters, tells the story of the poet’s childhood in Birkenhead, leading to his war poems and death a week before the Armistice.
Annual joint Wilfred Owen Association and Siegfried Sassoon Fellowship event. The main speaker will be Elizabeth Vandiver, Associate Professor at Whitman College, Washington, USA. Her subject will be "The underworld journey in Owen, Sassoon, Graves, and Aldington". The second speaker is yet to be confirmed.
Rupert Brooke Centenary Poetry Celebrations are taking place in the Aegean island of Skyros, Greece on 22 & 23 April 2015.
The event is to remember the English poet's life, poetry and his death during WW1.
Presentations of Isaac Rosenberg's poems and letters.
Featuring Michael Rosen, Elaine Feinstein, Lee Montague, Philip Bell, Simon Haynes and Jean Moorcraft Wilson.
The Dunsden Owen Association (DOA) is launching a new dynamic trail and smartphone app, inspired by the work of Wilfred Owen, who lived in Dunsden from 1911-1913.
​​Registration is now open for the three-day conference, AFTERMATH: the Cultural Legacies of WW1, to be held at King's College London from 21-23 May 2015, featuring eight keynotes from world-leading scholars across a range of disciplines.
Vivien Whelpton, Battlefield Guide and biographer of Richard Aldington, will be leading a walk in Bloomsbury, London, in July of this year. The tour will cover places associated with Wilfred Owen, who enlisted in London in 1915, and also the poets Siegfried Sassoon, Richard Aldington, the American poet H.D. (Hilda Doolittle), Harold Monro, T.S. Eliot and W.B.Yeats. The tour will cover the Bloomsbury connections - and the connections with one another - of these poets during and immediately prior to the First World War.
“That Astonishing Infantry”
Siegfried Sassoon Fellowship AGM and annual conference will be held in Wrexham this year, home of Sassoon's regiment the Royal Welch Fusiliers.
A guided walking tour called ‘Wilfred Owen and the Tracks to the Trenches’ marks the centenary of Owen’s enlistment in the Artists Rifles. It includes a reading of ‘The Send-Off’, and a special visit to the interior of Mahim, the Owen family home in Monkmoor Road (by kind permissionof the owners, Mr & Mrs Roger Norton). In an echo of Tom Owen’s life with the railways, a lecture by the Shrewsbury Historic Railway Trust will tell the story of the railways and railwaymen in the war.
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