The War Poems are a daily witnessing of the pain and suffering of two nations. After waking to the news of the Israeli massacre by Hamas on October 7th, I had great difficulty expressing my pain ...

A Medal of Honor recipient's epic poem of war 04:26. It's not often (if ever) a recipient of the Medal of Honor is also a published poet. But retired Green Beret John Duffy turned his trial-by ...

Today’s Poem of the Day, continuing our week-long observance of the silencing of the guns of the First World War, illuminates Gurney the musician. His poem’s speaker dreads the sheer cacophony of ...

Poem of the Day: ‘The Battle of Blenheim’ Coleridge called Robert Southey the complete man of letters — as he may have been, if ‘man of letters’ is a slightly sad title, given in courtesy to those who ...

The poems were written by Canon John Purvis, the founder of the Borthwick Institute in York. As a young Green Howards lieutenant, Purvis served in the trenches in the First World War.