Poems & Poets from the Great War at Sea & World War II
There is now an impressive collection of on line resources at the newly established website Jutland2016 with a related blog to promote updates – Jutland2016blog. And in Denmark there is a Jutland Memorial Park – Memorial Park And a Sea War Museum about Jutland, with some English and German language pages to be added soon …
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After some deliberation it’s been decided to move the goal posts a little . The Great War at Sea Poetry Project website at greatwaratseapoetry will keep to its original remit. This blog will also cover World War 2 sea poetry as there is some magnificent work out there which gets overlooked by emphasis on World War 1 …
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Paul Bewsher -‘The Dawn Patrol ‘ New to the Great War at Sea Poetry Website , there is a page dedicated to Jeffrey Miles Game Day, of the Royal Naval Air Service. Miles Jeffrey Game Day His plane fell from the sky during air conflict , most likely shot down, over the North Sea on …
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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 the belly of Death. The ships have a thousand eyes To mark where we come . . . But the mirth of a seaport dies When our blow gets …
The main Great War at Sea Poetry Project website now features a Gallipoli Webpage Decided to post two poems here which are about amphibious landing, from two poets who fought at Gallipoli. John Still( 1880- 1941) served at Gallipoli with the 6th East Yorks (Pioneers) . He was captured at Suvla Bay on 9th August …
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At times wonder if devotees of War Poetry over-estimate its literary importance. Recently found an anthology titled ‘Vintage Verse-An Anthology of Poetry in English’ edited by Clifford Bax from 1944. The range of poetry included starts with work from 1290 leading through the centuries to T.S.Elliott. The only poet who served during the Great War …
The Orkney Heritage Society have posted the following In June 1916 HMS Hampshire hit a mine and sank in a gale near Orkney. Earl Kitchener and more that 730 other men died: 12 survived. Orkney Heritage Society is restoring Orkney’s Kitchener Memorial and creating a commemorative wall inscribed with the names of the other men …
Dark waters into crystalline brilliance break About the keel, as through the moonless night The dark ship moves in its own moving lake Of phosphorescent cold moon-coloured light; And to the clear horizon, all around Drift pools of fiery beryl flashing bright As though, still flashing, quenchless, cold and white, A million moons in the …
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“War’- Francis Ledgwidge (Killed in Action 31st July 1917) Darkness and I are one, and wind And nagging thunder, brothers all, My Mother was a storm I call And shorten your way with speed to me I am Love and Hate and the terrible mind Of vicious gods, but more am I I am the …
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“As part of The Historic Dockyard Chatham’s First World War Centenary commemorations, an event of national significance will remember the three Royal Navy Cruisers – HMS Aboukir, HMS Hogue and HMS Cressy – which were sunk by enemy submarine action on 22nd September 1914 off the Dutch coast in the North Sea with a total …