war poetry and war poets from around the world
Articles, essays and notes about war poetry.
Poets and War is calling for communities to create an annual Civilian War Casualties Day. We need to spend a few moments away from celebrity news and mass entertainment to better understand how wars have inflicted enormous suffering on civilians.…
Written and published in 1918, “High Wood” (on our site) is sometimes praised for its prescience about tourists visiting unimaginably ghastly battlefields not yet cleared of military detritus and bodies. But Europeans had already established such tours after …
“A poet is the first citizen of his country and for this very reason it is the duty
of the poet to be concerned about the politics of his country.”
Yiannis Ritsos
Few academic poets write about our wars in …
A Qatari poet, Mohammed ibn al-Dheeb al-Ajami, was sentenced in November 2012 to life imprisonment, apparently for writing a poem, “Tunisian Jasmine,” that applauds Arab Spring uprisings. The poem praising specific actions in Tunisia was officially interpreted in Qatar as …