The Wilfred Owen Association
The Wilfred Owen Association
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Benjamin Britten's War Requiem is to be performed in Coventry Cathedral (for the consecration of which it was written in 1962) on 13th November 2010, the eve of the 70th anniversary of the destruction of Coventry and its cathedral.
The 2010 recipient of the Wilfred Owen Poetry Award is Professor Jon Stallworthy.
In honour of Poppy Day, a look at war through the ages. Sometimes political, sometimes sad, always with a touch of humour and Dunkirk Spirit.
Stephen Macdonald’s award-winning play ‘Not About Heroes’.
Benjamin Britten's War Requiem is to be performed in Westminster Cathedral on 17th November 2010.
To celebrate the first anniversary of The Mark Wright Project, Harry Potter star Jason Isaacs will read Owen and Sassoon poems at the former Craiglockhart Hospital, Edinburgh.
The cultural impact of the Great War continues to be felt, especially in poetry. Harry Ricketts, author of Strange Meetings, looks at the actual encounters, or near-encounters between the war poets and the influence they had on each other, including Sassoon, Rupert Brooke, Wilfred Owen, Edward Thomas, Ivor Gurney, David Jones, Vera Brittain and Roland Leighton, Robert Graves, Isaac Rosenberg (born in Bristol), Robert Nicols and Edmund Blunden.
Christ Church in Oxton, Wirral (where Wilfred Owen attended Sunday school), is to play host to a Christmas version of Dean Johnson's "Bullets and Daffodils", the musical based on his life.
A celebration of Michael Longley's new collection "A Hundred Doors", with a reading followed by a discussion with Colette Bryce, who chairs the event.
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