War memorial

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WW1 continues to inspire poets, and Alison Chisholm is impressed with the impact of

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Search for “bog” in this new edition of Seamus Heaney’s poems and you will find the word some 60 times; the 1,200 tissue-thin pages are mulchy with “the squelch and slap of soggy peat”. There is the o

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Tennyson revisited

The Boundless Deep: Young Tennyson, Science and the ...

The TLS

Lioness of god

The sixtieth anniversary ‘heritage’ edition of Ariel

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Suffering & shell shock the psychological toll of wwi and wwii

Even the most successful and affluent individuals are not immune to the effects of shell shock, a powerful reminder that, beneath status and achievement, we are all fundamentally human. As I sift thro

Writing Magazine

Stars in his eyes

You have the universe in your hair and the stars on your brow. I would wrap you up in heaven’s rainbow cloak, But I am a poor man. My only currency is hope. You are like an orchard abundant with fruit

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The story of the somme

On a beautiful summer’s morning almost 110 years ago, men of the British Army stepped out into no-man’s land at 7.30am. It was 1 July 1916, and the start of what was then called ‘The Big Push’. With h

Prospect

In the bogs