30 Short Poems That'll Help You Read More Poetry This Year. ... Angela Morgan wrote this poem during World War I, which makes it both tragic and truly inspiring.

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, ...

In their poetry, the writers all contemplate the way that poverty in the aftermath of war is restricting the lives of the population. Mohammed Gibril Sesay's short poem Where Will Our Child Lie deals ...

Here are two poems that reflect the mood of the world at this time. They were written in the middle twentieth century and talk about war at a time when war seized the consciousness of the world.

The poetry of the early days of the war was also full of enthusiasm and optimism. A good example is “ Men Who March Away ” by Thomas Hardy, published in September 1914.

The First World War was “one of the seminal moments of the twentieth century in which literate soldiers, plunged into inhuman conditions, reacted to their surroundings in poems”, writes ...

In Lyudmyla Khersonska’s 2022 poem “War. Day 1,” a woman wearing “cheery pajamas” wakes up to an uninvited guest outside her door: Russia’s full-scale invasion of Ukraine. “In the ...

In a 2024 interview, the late Belfast poet Michael Longley talks with Olivia O'Leary about his World War 1 poetry, which was inspired by his father's experience. Show more The Irish poet Michael ...