World War Poetry – Poems & Poets from the Great War at Sea & World War II

Welcome

Welcome to the worldwarpoetry.com.

This website has been created to combine research on the poetry and poets of World War II, and also serve as an archive for the now defunct Great War at Sea Poetry Project.

Please note that the links on the older posts-before April 2017- may not still be working.

Eventually it is hoped to launch a literary society devoted to World War 2 poetry.

Michael Bully , Brighton , March 2017.

Contact : MichaelBully@worldwarpoetry.com

Recent Articles

Anglo-Welsh Poet Lynette Roberts during World War 2

By Michael Bully / 28th November 2017

Interviews

Interview with Lucy London

By Michael Bully / 6th June 2017

The World War 2 poetry blog has been updated to include a poem each by Mary E Harrison

The World is a Broken Place -part 2 of interview with John Guzlowski

By Michael Bully / 26th April 2017

Pleased to carry on my e mail interview with John Guzlowski. A son of a Polish immigrants , with both parents

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The World Is A Broken Place- Interview with John Guzlowski part one

By Michael Bully / 6th April 2017

Photo- Polish victim of Luftwafe bombing 1939 It is certainly an honour to interview John Guzlowski. A son of a Polish

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Remember Babi Yar – ‘Art Destroys Silence’

By Michael Bully / 9th March 2017

'Babi Yar' -Yevgeny Yevtushenko (born 1933) People knew about Babi Yar before Yevtushenko's poem, but they were silent. And when they

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Sassoon re-appraised by World War 2 Serving Poets

By Michael Bully / 4th December 2016

'Silent Service'-Siegfried Sassoon Now, mulltifold, let Britain's patient power Be proven within us for the world to see, None are exempt from service

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Vernon Watkins – Janet Hills

By Michael Bully / 4th December 2016

Last Post of 2016 Thank you to the large number of readers from many countries who have logged into the view

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The Scottish World War 2 Poets – Part One

By Michael Bully / 28th November 2016

The Scottish World War 2 Poets and the Desert "There are many dead in the brutish desert who lie uneasy among the scrub

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‘Voices of Silence’ – Vivien Noakes /The Poetry of J. L. Crommelin Brown

By Michael Bully / 8th November 2016

Greetings to readers of this blog in many countries, interest always appreciated. A companion blog to this one is World War

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Coventry – 14th November 1940

By Michael Bully / 1st November 2016

"The raiders first fired the medieval centre, crowned by its beautiful cathedral, which was gutted. They then poured hundreds of

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Henry Treece – ‘Air Raid’

By Michael Bully / 22nd September 2016

Was recently reading an anthology 'More Poems from the Forces By Serving Members Of the Navy, Army, and Air Force'

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Vernon Scannell -The neglected Prose and The Walking Wounded

By Michael Bully / 4th September 2016

Vernon Scannell deserves the title of 'War Poet' (1922- 2007) . Saw active service in North Africa and

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Troopship in World War 2

By Michael Bully / 4th September 2016

Roy Broadbent Fuller Roy Broadbent Fuller ( 11th February 1912- 27th September 1991) was already a published poet when he was

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Alan Ross, Murmansk and ‘Leaves in the Storm’

By Michael Bully / 28th July 2016

Murmansk and Leaves in the Storm First of all, greetings to all the new visitors to this blog. Delighted to see

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More about Alan Ross

By Michael Bully / 7th July 2016

Arctic Waking by Alan Ross Sky like a dog rose draws blood, The tide mirrors my sailed love, Through clouds of sea foamed

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Remembering the Fishermen who served during the Great War

By Michael Bully / 28th April 2016

A fascinating work indeed. A vital contribution to understanding the Great War at Sea. The focus is on 1914-1915 with

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Various updates

By Michael Bully / 26th March 2016

The SS Mendi The Great War at Sea Poetry Website has a new page about the sinking of the troopship SS

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Riding Seaward on the Wave

By Michael Bully / 26th February 2016

Returning to sea poetry published during the Great War, but seemingly to have no connection to the conflict: Realised that

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Cressy

By Michael Bully / 22nd February 2016

Poem I wrote last year (2013) in memory of all those who perished at sea on 22nd September 2014 when

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Vita Sackville-West – Sea Poem

By Michael Bully / 7th February 2016

Recently came across the notion of 'combat gnosticism' - can someone who has never experienced being under fire really be

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Battle of Jutland commemoration 1916-2016

By Michael Bully / 18th November 2015

There is now an impressive collection of on line resources at the newly established website Jutland2016 with a related blog

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Great War at Sea Poetry Project Update – and World War 2 poetry

By Michael Bully / 20th September 2015

After some deliberation it's been decided to move the goal posts a little . The Great War at Sea Poetry

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The North Sea -Dawn Patrol -A study of Contrasts

By Michael Bully / 22nd July 2015

Paul Bewsher -'The Dawn Patrol ' New to the Great War at Sea Poetry Website , there is a page dedicated

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Return to Kipling – ‘The Trade ‘

By Michael Bully / 31st May 2015

Submarine Great War Poetry Tin Ships -Kipling (1916) The ships destroy us above And ensnare us beneath. We arise, we lie down, and we move In

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Gallipoli Centenary and Sea Poetry from the Coastline

By Michael Bully / 22nd April 2015

The main Great War at Sea Poetry Project website now features a Gallipoli Webpage Decided to post two poems here which

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Sea Garden

By Michael Bully / 15th April 2015

At times wonder if devotees of War Poetry over-estimate its literary importance. Recently found an anthology titled 'Vintage Verse-An Anthology

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HMS Hampshire and more

By Michael Bully / 22nd February 2015

The Orkney Heritage Society have posted the following In June 1916 HMS Hampshire hit a mine and sank in a gale

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Wilfrid Wilson Gibson – Troopship Mid-Atlantic

By Michael Bully / 10th January 2015

Dark waters into crystalline brilliance break About the keel, as through the moonless night The dark ship moves in its own moving

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Vera Brittain – Testament of Youth – the movie

By Michael Bully / 24th October 2014

“War’- Francis Ledgwidge (Killed in Action 31st July 1917) Darkness and I are one, and wind And nagging thunder, brothers all, My Mother

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Royal Naval Dockyard Chatham – Live Bait Squadron commemoration 22nd September 2014

By Michael Bully / 13th September 2014

"As part of The Historic Dockyard Chatham’s First World War Centenary commemorations, an event of national significance will remember the

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Great War at Sea Poetry Project Website

By Michael Bully / 5th August 2014

Great War at Sea Poetry Project now has a website at http://greatwaratseapoetry.weebly.com/ Pages have been added about HMS Vanguard, Editha Jenkinson,

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HMS Vanguard

By Michael Bully / 8th July 2014

Remembering today 9th July 2014 those who died aboard the HMS Vanguard, who exploded whilst moored off the coast of

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Cicely Fox Smith – Commemoration

By Michael Bully / 12th June 2014

Delighted to hear that the life and work of Cicely -Fox Smith (1882-1954) is going to be commemorated at Bow,

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Kipling – The Verdicts

By Michael Bully / 4th June 2014

Will the Battle of Jutland/Skagerrakschlacht be remembered? 'On the afternoon of Wednesday 31st May a naval engagement took place off the

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