The Wilfred Owen Association News /news/ News and updates from the Wilfred Owen Association<![CDATA[Plaque to be placed on poet’s home]]>

The plaque will be uncovered by Peter Owen on 20th March at 2pm.  All welcome.  Further details on the Shropshire Star website.

Information about this event is also on our website.


 

 

 

]]>/news/2010/03/plaque-to-be-placed-on-poets-home/news/2010/03/plaque-to-be-placed-on-poets-home<![CDATA[War Requiem in Moscow - a review]]>Benjamin Britten’s “War Requiem” was performed on the opening night of Novaya Opera’s annual “Epiphany Week”, held in Moscow.  Writing in the Moscow Times, Raymond Stults called this performance the best of the festival:

"The very best of what I heard at the festival came on its opening night, with a superbly played and sung performance of Benjamin Britten’s “War Requiem” under the baton of British guest conductor Jan Latham-Koenig. A moving expression of the composer’s anti-war sentiments, the “War Requiem” combines the words of the Latin Mass for the Dead and poems by the great British poet of World War I, Wilfred Owen, and calls for enormous musical forces: a full-sized and a chamber orchestra, an adult mixed chorus and a boys’ choir and three vocal soloists".

The “War Requiem” is due to be repeated at Novaya Opera on May 9. 

Read the review on the Moscow Times website

 

]]>/news/2010/02/war-requiem-in-moscow---a-review/news/2010/02/war-requiem-in-moscow---a-review<![CDATA[Project to commemorate war poet Owen]]>A report on plans for the Forester's House, where Owen wrote his last letter.

Shropshire Star

Further information about this project is on the Association Wilfred Owen France website.

 

 

]]>/news/2010/02/project-to-commemorate-war-poet-owen/news/2010/02/project-to-commemorate-war-poet-owen<![CDATA[Celebrating Oswestry’s literary legends]]>Read more about the first Oswestry Literary Festival, to be staged over Owen's birthday, in the Shropshire Star.

]]>/news/2010/02/celebrating-oswestrys-literary-legends/news/2010/02/celebrating-oswestrys-literary-legends<![CDATA[Wilfred Owen museum promoted at "The France Show 2010" ]]>The Association Wilfred Owen France will be promoting The Forester's House, a museum dedicated to Wilfred Owen, at The France Show 2010, which will be held at Earls Court, London. The Association and others will be holding a press conference to discuss the museum, sceduled to open in 2011, at 3.30pm on 8th January (stand L53).

Download a press release from here.

We have received the following information from Benoit Misson, President of The Association Wilfred Owen France:

"We may count on the presence of the 'Tourism Authority of the Cambrésis' for a 'France Show 2010' meeting to be held in London. A communication about the future of the Forester's House (where Wilfred Owen wrote his last letter) will take place on January 8 - 15:30. Mr Renaud TARDY (Vice
President of the Conseil Général du Nord), several members of the Association and Simon Patterson, the artist, will be present".

The France Show website is www.thefranceshow.com

WOA members are urged to attend to show their support!

The Association Wilfred Owen France website is www.wilfredowen.fr

]]>/news/2009/12/the-wilfred-owen-association-france-at-france-show-in-london/news/2009/12/the-wilfred-owen-association-france-at-france-show-in-london<![CDATA[New Dulce Et Decorum Est EP!]]>US band Picture Atlantic have released an EP called "Dulce Et Decorum Est".  They talk about the influence of Owen's famous poem on the Indie Rock Reviews website.

]]>/news/2009/12/new-dulce-et-decorum-est-ep/news/2009/12/new-dulce-et-decorum-est-ep<![CDATA[Video about the 2009 homage to Wilfred Owen in Ors]]>A short film about the recent commemorations in Ors, France, marking the 91st anniversary of Owen's death, has been uploaded to "AOL video".  Click on this link:
http://video.aol.co.uk/video-detail/91me-anniversaire-de-la-mort-de-wilfred-owen/1100304653

For more information about this annual event see www.wilfredowen.fr

]]>/news/2009/12/video-about-the-2009-homage-to-wilfred-owen-in-ors/news/2009/12/video-about-the-2009-homage-to-wilfred-owen-in-ors<![CDATA[Passing of a Generation]]>Peter Owen, Wilfred Owen's nephew, his wife Elizabeth and several members of the Wilfred Owen Association were present at the "Passing of a Generation" service held at Westminster Abbey yesterday (November 11th).

This special Remembrance Service honoured all those who fought in the First World War and was prompted by the death in July of the last Tommy, Harry Patch.  Further details are on the Independent website.

]]>/news/2009/11/passing-of-a-generation/news/2009/11/passing-of-a-generation<![CDATA[Armistice Day: The Great War and the words we mustn't forget]]>In an editorial in the Independent, Robert Fisk considers if, as English evolves in the digital age, the powerful words of the Great War writers and poets will "soon stop making sense"?
Independent, 11 November 2009

]]>/news/2009/11/armistice-day-the-great-war-and-the-words-we-mustnt-forget/news/2009/11/armistice-day-the-great-war-and-the-words-we-mustnt-forget<![CDATA[Siegfried Sassoon WWI archive launched online for Armistice Day]]>Oxford University is marking this year’s Armistice Day by launching the first online collection of the manuscripts of Siegfried Sassoon, focusing on his war poetry.
Culture24, 4 November 2009

]]>/news/2009/11/siegfried-sassoon-wwi-archive-launched-online-for-armistice-day/news/2009/11/siegfried-sassoon-wwi-archive-launched-online-for-armistice-day