POEMS AND POETS OF TODAY AND THE FIRST WORLD WAR

Modern War Poetry
and poems of the First World War

First World War Poetry

The First World War section includes some of the most famous war poems of all time by Wilfred Owen and others. The basic notes provided with some of these poems will be useful for students. There is biographical information about 25 First World War poets, with substantial amounts on Wilfred Owen in particular. 

For information about anthologies of poetry, collections of poems by specific war poets, and relevant history books please see the books page.

Recent poems about the First World War

Modern war poems

The list of modern war poetry sections is further down this page. Click here to get there fast.

NEWS 

 Thirtieth Anniversary of the Invasion of the Falkland Islands by Argentina, 2 April 2012

Falklands War poetry anthology

Falklands War Poetry Out Now  -  Published 30 March 2012

Falklands War Poetry, edited by David Roberts  -  NEW BOOK published by Saxon Books. Poems from Britain, the Falkland Islands and Argentina.
Click here for more information about this book.
Special offer on Falklands War Poetry

Yahoo! News praises Falklands War Poetry. "Poets from Britain, Argentina and the Falklands give a fascinating insight into the conflict." - Simon Garner, Yahoo! News. Click to read article.

BBC2 Documentary of the Week - The Falklands Legacy with Max Hastings - Sunday 1 April, 9 pm

War reporter and historian, Max Hastings, went with the British Army to the Falklands in 1982. With Simon Jenkins he wrote an important book on the subject of the war "The Battle for the Falklands". Watch on BBC I-Player.

TV programme - The Great Falklands Gamble Revealed
Tuesday 13 March

This TV documentary involved Bernie Bruen whose poetry appears on this website and in the anthology of Falklands War Poetry. He was commander of the 18-man bomb disposal team during the Falklands War. The making of the documentary affected him more than he had anticipated. He wrote a poem about this experience which has now been added to the 2012 page of this website. The programme was on UK Channel 5, Tuesday, 13th March 2012, 8pm - repeated Friday 16th March at 7 pm. Bernie Bruen's book, A Falkland Farewell - Keep your Head Down, is a fascinating diary of his Falklands' experience. It is now out of print but you may be lucky to get a secondhand copy.

There have been two more TV programmes about the Falklands on UK TV. These programmes may be available within the UK to "Watch again."

Tony McNally author of Falklands war poetry (this website and Falklands War Poetry book) in Guardian interview
Tony McNally, author of some of the Falklands war poetry on this website and in the new anthology, Falklands War Poetry (also author of the book Watching Men Burn) was recently interviewed in the Guardian newspaper together with a Falklands war veteran from Argentina. You can read the interview by following this link: Click Guardian interview with Tony McNally.

New 2012 page  has been started with a few of the poems so far received this year. I hope to add a new 2012 page  to the WarPoetryWritersZone later this spring.  DR

www.warpoetry.co.uk , the number one in search engines for "war poetry" More. . .

The pages of this website devoted to war poems of today are listed below this introduction.

They include poems of the wars in Iraq, Afghanistan, Kosovo, Falklands, Vietnam, Africa and the Israel/Palestine conflict. There are remembrance poems, peace poems and anti-war poems too.

The contemporary war poetry on this website expresses a wide variety of views, experience and insights.  Each poet has his or her own distinctive voice. Today's war poets are people involved in warfare, affected by it or concerned about its affects.

New poems can now instantly be added by poets. /span> See WARpoetrywritersZONE below or click here. Readers of modern war poetry will see some of the very latest poems here.

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Issues of war and peace

The Issues index page provides links to

Most countries do not indulge in warfare. It is a matter of concern and distress to many people in the world that a significant handful of countries, often in defiance of United Nations' principles, are almost constantly at war, either overtly, or through the support and provocation of others.

Warpoetry website developments  More . . .

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Clickable Links to pages on this website

War Poetry Today

2012 war poetry
2011 War Poems and poem videos
2010 War Poems
2009 War Poems
2008 War Poems
2007 War Poems
2006 War Poems
Afghanistan War Poems
Africa War Poems
Asia (war poems from)
Australia (war poems from)
Falklands War Poetry
 Falklands War Poetry by Bernie Bruen
Falklands War - Graham Cordwell
Iraq War Videos
Iraq - the start of the war - 2003 War Poems
Iraq 2004 War Poems
Iraq and other war poems early 2005
Iraq and other war poems later 2005
Iraq later war poems have been added to
other yearly collections
Israel - War Poems, Elisha Porat
Israel - The persecution of the Jews, War Poems
Israel attacks Gaza Strip, War Poems
Japan (war poems from)
Kosovo War, War Poems
Middle East, War Poems
Northern Ireland, War Poems
Palestine, War Poems
Remembrance Poems
Second World War  poetry
Sierra Leone War, War Poems
Vietnam War, War Poems

Individual contemporary war poets
Poems by
Curt Bennett (US)
Michael Brett
Bernie Bruen, Falklands
Graham Cordwell, Falklands
Thomas Crofts
Cheryl L Daytec (Philippines - Some Palestine poems)
Maria Deyana 
Maureen Jones (about First World War)
Danny Martin  
Elisha Porat (Israel) 
Marguerite Rami 
Penny Rock (US)
Ann-Marie Spittle 
Poems by Mike Subritzky (NZ)

Issues of war and peace

Books of war poetry and for writers of war poetry. Books about recent wars and the politics of war and peace.

Video Pages

Videos about the Iraq War 2003 - the bombing

Background to the Iraq War - Videos

Israel/Palestine - Videos

Videos of Poems added 2011

Poetry videos can be found on the Northern Ireland page, the Palestine page and the 2011 page.

Suheir Hammad

Suheir Hammad - See her video speaking her poem, What I will. (An expression of a determination to dissociate herself from what the 9/11 criminals did and everything they stood for. A modern statement of pacifism.)

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War Poetry website developments  2011

30 December
Forthcoming book of Falklands War poetry announced.

New book of war poetry
Heroes, 100 poems from the new generation of war poets. Read review.

More news on the new War Poetry News page. (November 2011)

Surge in the number of visitors to the warpoetry website, November 2011. More . . . 

9 November
 New poems have recently been added to the 2011 and Remembrance pages.

23 July  Iraq War - what really happened - Script of YouTube video by David Roberts
Poem Death of a Hero by Steve Carlsen added to the Remembrance page

18 July Iraq war statistics page was added. See Issues of war and peace above or go to the Issues page.

17 July Remembrance page was made easier to navigate with clickable links to the many poems

16 July The words of a new Remembrance hymn/poem by Charles Henrywood were added

5 May  New poems added from Cheryl L Daytec of the Philippines. Access through the list of contemporary war poets above.

4 May Details of a new opportunity for writers of war poetry to contribute to a new book have been added. Click here for more information.
A newly discovered poem of the First World War from Australia has been added to the 2011 page.

14 March A page of poems that became detached from the website has been re-designed and re-united with the website - "2007 war poems". Please see list above for the link.

17 February Three video poems about the Egyptian Revolution - two recorded on the streets of Cairo.

16 February Add your war poetry  - New poems can now instantly be added by poets.  Go to WARpoetrywritersZONE. Only WAR poems, please. Poems on other topics will be deleted.
What many people dare not tell you - video of Former President of the United States and Nobel Peace Prize Winner, Jimmy Carter, can be seen in a video speaking on the suffering of the Palestinians on our Israel/Palestine videos page.
January 2011  - Videos showing the bombing of Baghdad, Baghdad before the bombing and US soldiers taking the law into their own hands in Iraq - and a page of videos about the causes, excuses, lies and effects of the war against Iraq. (Links above.)
The Issues section has a short article about religious tolerance in Britain by Lord Sacks, the Chief Rabbi.
January 2011 in the Issues section/strong> is a discussion by Francis Clark-Lowes of the nature of war and peace and the practical problems regarding the achievement of peace.
The design and content of this website continues to improve. One of the latest war related page is our page of quotations about war, peace, and human conflict.. We have our first poems from Australia and poems from Northern Ireland. The Wilfred Owen pages - last updated in 1999 - are being redesigned.

The War Poetry website popularity  It is number one in Google for war poetry. The War Poetry website is gaining in popularity. On Remembrance Day, 11 November 2010, there were 25,470 visitors.

Video of former Nuremberg Prosecutor speaking on the illegality of the NATO bombing of Kosovo  From ISSUES (in the left column) you can access the Kosovo page where you can access this unique video. It's a truly historic statement by the late Walter Rockler recorded at the request of the editor in 2000. It is available here for the first time since we placed the video on YouTube in October 2010.

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This website was last updated
24 April 2012

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