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unusual facts about war poet



Bullets and Daffodils

Bullets and Daffodils is a musical about the life of the war poet Wilfred Owen, created by musician and composer Dean Johnson and directed by Dean Sullivan.

Cwmaman

The village is home to the war poet Alun Lewis, and a plaque in what is now Llanwonno Road marks the house where he once lived.

Dòmhnall Ruadh Chorùna

Donald MacDonald known as Dòmhnall Ruadh Chorùna (Red Donald of Coruna) (9 July 1887 Claddach Baleshare, North Uist, Scotland - 13 August 1967, Lochmaddy, Scotland) was a North Uist stonemason, a veteran of the First World War, and a legendary war poet in the Scottish Gaelic language.

Jessie Pope

Wilfred Owen directed his 1917 poem Dulce et Decorum Est at Pope, whose literary reputation has faded into relative obscurity as those of war poets such as Owen and Siegfried Sassoon have grown.


see also

A Soldier and a Maker

A Soldier and a Maker is a piece of musical theatre by Iain Burnside on the life story of the First World War poet and composer Ivor Gurney.

Edward Tennant

His son Edward Wyndham Tennant (1897–1916), English war poet, killed at the Battle of the Somme

Helmingham

The village was the birthplace of Faith Emmeline Backhouse, mother of the war poet John Gillespie Magee, Jr..

The Library Is on Fire

Five took the name from a poem by French war poet René Char while working at Strand Bookstore, after weekly meetings over coffee with Television guitarist Tom Verlaine.

Tynecastle High School

Wilfred Owen the First World War poet taught at Tynecastle when he was a patient at Craiglockhart Hospital.

William Hodgson

W. N. Hodgson (William Noel Hodgson, 1893–1916), English war poet