Events:

Welcome to http://warpoets.wordpress.com, the new weblog of the War Poets Association (see our website at www.warpoets.org).

Just to start off the blog, here’s a plethora of information about forthcoming events – mostly, but not all, in the UK – related to war poetry – that we have just researched or been told about and that will be happening over the next month or so. Most of the links below are to parts of our website at www.warpoets.org, so do please visit that too.

We aim to be an international site and Association, and one objective in setting up this blog is that the War Poets Association (WPA) will be able to publicise many other relevant events from around the world on its website and here in this blog.

Please contribute in a language other than English if you wish – we ask only that you tell us which language it is, if it is not already clear.

Here’s our list of forthcoming war poetry-related events and publications for November and the Remembrance period generally.

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Please follow the relevant link below for more information about each event. If you know of a forthcoming happening or publication and would like it to be included here, e-mail editor@warpoets.org.

June 2006 or earlier

New Selection of Edmund Blunden’s Poetry: The Deceitful Calm

Lynette Roberts, war poet: BBC audio recording available online

July 2006

2^nd Ca N’Alluny, Robert Graves’s House in Mallorca, opens as a Museum

August 2006

9^th Contents of first issue of WPA’s journal ‘War Poetry Review‘ : update

October 2006

9^th Poetry vs. History: Debate at the Imperial War Museum, London, Wednesday, 4 October at 7.00pm

6th Sassoon biography available in paperback

10th, to 17 December New play about Robert Graves and T.E. Lawrence showing in Ottawa and Toronto, Canada, 10-29 October and 7 November – 17 December 2006

19^th Anne Powell’s The Fierce Light re-published 19 October 2006 by Sutton Publishing

November 2006

1 – 7th ‘Everyone Sang’: Sassoon Exhibition at the Francis Kyle Gallery, London, 1 November – 7 December 2006

3-5^th Jon Stallworthy to Talk About WW2 Poet Henry Reed and on W B Yeats, and Alastair Reid About Pablo Neruda,at the 18th Aldeburgh Poetry Fesival, Suffolk, 3-5 November, 2006

6th Vivien Noakes’s Voices of Silence to be published on 6 November

11^th Britten’s War Requiem to be performed in Nottingham, England, on Remembrance Day, 11 November 2006 at 7.30 pm

12^th at 3 pm Eloquent Protest: Tony Benn to Host an Afternoon of Poetry and Music in London on Remembrance Sunday, 12 November 2006

7th-18th Not About Heroes Showing in London’s West End, 7-18 November 2006

12^th-18th BBC Radio 3 to remember Wilfred Owen, 12-18 November 2006

May 2007

20-25th Durrell School of Corfu, Greece: ‘The Literature of War’, 20-25 May, 2007

July 2007

5-6th Seminar announcement: ‘The Poetry of Robert Graves’, Institute of English Studies, London, Thursday/Friday 5-6 July, 2007

September 2007

9^th Call for Papers: Ivor Gurney, Poetry and Music, 9 September 2007