Poet and artist Frieda Hughes reflects on her own work after judging war poems this week, written for an annual competition ...

Describing the art form as a form of therapy, Esther says many of her fellow slam poets write about the theme of conflict. ''Often they're ten, eleven or fourteen years old. But strangely enough, they ...

It is difficult to imagine something truly poetic and beautiful generating from war and conflict. But the First ... one of the most famous pieces of war poetry, In Flanders Fields, while observing ...

In the 1960s a literary elite decided this was the most authentic view of the conflict because it chimed with their own anti-war feelings. This resulted in the publication of two key war poetry ...

Homer wrote about the Trojan War; Alfred Lord Tennyson, the Crimean War; Walt Whitman, the Civil War; Wilfred Owen, World War I. Their poems are part of world history and culture. Poets should and ...