Poems & Poets from the Great War at Sea & World War II
The British Army in Tunisia 1943 Infantry and carriers of the Grenadier Guards advance over difficult terrain near the Kasserine Pass, 24 February 1943. Courtesy Wikipedia/IWM in public domain. About a year ago I wrote a piece for the World War 2 poetry blog about the poet Sidney …
Please to advise that the Worldwar2poetry.blogspot.co.uk has been updated to include a post about the life & poetry of Timothy Corsellis , who died in an aeroplane accident in 1941 aged just 20. He was a second officer with the Air Transport Auxilary . A longer article about his work will appear on this website …
Thomas Rahilley Hodgson, Pilot Officer RAF Volunteer Reserve, was killed in action on 17th May 1941 aged 25. He was survived by his parents and his wife. Hodgson is listed on the Runnymede Memorial , which commemorate around 20,000 individuals who died whilst serving with the RAF during World War 2 ,and had no …
From Michael Bully Realise that this website has not been updated for nearly a year. I am currently working on two blogs https://aburntship.blogspot.co.uk ( on 17th century war related poetry and literature) and http://Worldwar2poetry.blogspot.co.uk On the latter blog I had written a shorter post about Anna Akhmatova, but focusing on her life and work from …
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The Life and Poetry of Lynette Roberts Norma Bull ‘ Effigies of Crusaders in Round Temple Church London ‘ ( Courtesy …
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The World War 2 poetry blog has been updated to include a poem each by Mary E Harrison and Vera Brittain about the 30th May 1942 RAF raid on Cologne. http://Worldwar2poetry.blogspot.co.uk Delighted to publish an interview with Lucy …
Pleased to carry on my e mail interview with John Guzlowski. A son of a Polish immigrants , with both parents spending years as labourers in German concentration camps: Professor Guzlowski was born just after World War 2 in a Displaced Persons camp, and moved with his parents and sister to the USA in 1951, and …
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Photo- Polish victim of Luftwafe bombing 1939 It is certainly an honour to interview John Guzlowski. A son of a Polish immigrants , with both parents spending years as labourers in German concentration camps, Professor Guzlowski uses poetry and short pieces of prose to convey their experiences. John Guzlowski was born just after World War …
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‘Babi Yar’ -Yevgeny Yevtushenko (born 1933) People knew about Babi Yar before Yevtushenko’s poem, but they were silent. And when they read the poem, the silence was broken. Art destroys silence. ‘Testimony-The Memoirs of Dimitri Shostakovich,’ ( edited by Solomon Volkov) ,1979. During the German invasion of the Soviet Union, Babi Yar, a ravine by …
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‘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 in this hour: And vanquished in ourselves we dare not be. Now, for a sunlit future, we can show The clenched resolved endurance that defies Daemons in dark,-and toward that future go …
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