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Andrew Motion: ‘Wilfred Owen became a kind of sacred text for me’

The former poet laureate on growing up with Lawrence Durrell, rereading Henry James and getting to grips with the genius of Alexander Pope

The Guardian - UK

‘Every time I write, I doubt myself’: Michael Rosen at 80 on deep grief, self-belief and chocolate cake

The children’s author answers questions from readers, friends and writers on losing his son Eddie, surviving Covid, who he’d invite to his perfect birthday dinner and where he goes for inspiration

The Guardian - UK

‘Sometimes he cast spells over them’: the raging beauty of Derek Jarman’s black paintings

From his unfinished film about a murdered director to a stunning series of doomy oil paintings, Derek Jarman’s work could be angry, dark and disturbing – not to mention highly relevant in these bleak times

The Guardian - UK

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Making friends with the enemy: what stories of soldiers’ unexpected battlefield meetings reveal about the trauma of war

James Brady, serving with the Royal Army Medical Corps in the first world war, struggled to narrate the moment he was taken captive by German soldiers while serving on the western front. In the draft of his memoir, he crossed out and rewrote this section repeatedly.

The Conversation

Pat Barker: ‘When I first read Pride and Prejudice, I hated it’

The author on reimagining Homer, the sexiness of John Donne’s sonnets, and what she’s learned from Margaret Atwood

The Guardian - UK

Prom 37: Britten’s War Requiem review – a tragically relevant act of remembrance

Antonio Pappano seized every opportunity to build dramatic tension, while the London Symphony Orchestra played with fire and focus

The Guardian - UK

Country diary: The dandelions should be crowded; instead, a solitary bee

The Marches, Shropshire: These glorious so-called weeds are everywhere at the moment, undimmed by the lack of attention

The Guardian - UK

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Seamus Heaney: ten years after his death, the generosity and warmth of his rich poetic voice endures

The English war poet Wilfred Owen once wrote, “Celebrity is the last infirmity I desire.” Killed in France at the age of 25, unpublished and unknown, “celebrity” for Owen was a posthumous phenomenon. By contrast, celebrity status for the Irish poet Seamus Heaney – “Famous Seamus” – came early in…

The Conversation

Poetry, paradox and the worst war of all

The two greatest poets of World War I despised the bloody, pointless conflict — yet fought bravely. But why?

Salon

Poetry goes nuclear: 3 recent books delve into present anxieties, finding beauty amid the terror

It seemed to me for many years that thoughts of nuclear catastrophe were anachronistic. Was that ignorance and complacency on my part? Probably. After all, there were always rumblings about proliferation, Iran and North Korea, India and Pakistan and Israel. But they did not feel like existential threats to those…

The Conversation

The big idea: do we need to dismantle the literary canon?

The temptation to chuck out the old is strong, but can only be part of the answer

The Guardian - UK

‘It seems unlikely there wasn’t gay sex at the front’: The writers restoring queer lives into world war history

First World War poetry has always been defined by gay writers, so why is our idea of war still so heteronormatively masculine? Marcus Field speaks to two writers bringing questions of war, heroism and gender to the fore

The Independent UK

Prince Harry and Meghan Markle's visit to Merseyside four years on

Many will remember when Prince Harry and Meghan Markle were invited to the town

Liverpool Echo

‘Brilliant and ever-changing’: readers’ favourite street art in Europe

From Penge to Sardinia, exuberant street art makes neighbourhoods more vibrant and casts light on local history and culture – or just gives you a laugh

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What can we learn from the awful tragedy of Archie Battersbee’s death?

Doctors like me agonise over the harrowing decisions around the end of treatment – but we must always be ready to listen, says Rachel Clarke

The Guardian - UK

Nadhim Zahawi: axing Larkin and Owen poems for GCSE is cultural vandalism

Education secretary denounces exam board’s decision to replace the two poets in English literature course

The Independent UK

Wilfred Owen and Philip Larkin’s GCSE removal is ‘cultural vandalism’ – Zahawi

Nadhim Zahawi hit out on Thursday at the move by OCR, which is part of a wider reform of the exam board’s anthology.

ABC News

Benediction, from director Terence Davies, examines the life and secret affairs of queer English war poet Siegfried Sassoon

British director Terence Davies’s ninth feature centres on Siegfried Sassoon, a poet and decorated war veteran who suffered from shell shock and struggled to find 'redemption' from his secret queer romances.

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Review: 'Benediction' is a shattering biopic of the English war poet Siegfried Sassoon

"Benediction," Terence Davies' achingly beautiful portrait of the English war poet and soldier Siegfried Sassoon, is a movie of acute sadness and intense pleasure. The pleasure and the sadness are inextricable, which seems fitting, given how closely aesthetic bliss and moral despair were entwined in Sassoon's own art. In furious,…

The Guardian - UK

Benediction review – artful Siegfried Sassoon biopic full of unresolved yearning

The war poet’s life provides rich material for director Terence Davies to explore his preoccupations with sexuality, religion and the search for redemption

Evening Standard

Benediction movie review: Jack Lowden shines in Terence Davies’ unflattering light as Siegfried Sassoon

Terence Davies’ mercurial portrait of the WWI poet is, at times, ferociously good

The Independent UK

Benediction review: Terence Davies tends to his 20th century tragedies with care

Inspired by the life of Siegfried Sassoon, Terence Davies’s evocative drama is no cradle-to-grave biopic

Daily Mirror

Inside the incredible life of English poet who put horrors of WW1 into verse

Siegfried Sassoon remains one of the most influential war poets for his brutally honest depictions of the realities of war which still hold up more than 100 years after he wrote them

Liverpool Echo

Celebrities you might not know have links to Wirral

You may be surprised that some of these celebs hail from the peninsula

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