# armistice poems tuesdaymotivaton iyog2022 glass art stainedglass soldier poet otd oswestry shropshire dulceetdecorumest ww1 wewillrememberthem becreative armisticeday dulceetdecrumest strangemeeting thepityofwar winteroftheworld asleep lestweforget

Today marks the death of killed in action at the age of 25 on 4 November 1918. He died a week before the signing of the leading his men across the Sambre-Oise canal. In 2018 I was commissioned by to complete work to accompany his

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2022-11-04

Stevens Competition Winners Announced! Second Prize, Design only: DAWN THOMAS. Thanks to Sheriff Alison Gowman for presenting the Prizes

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2022-05-25

Remembering who 18 March 1893 was born in
Here is an image I painted entitled 'The Ghosts' it features in my fully illustrated book

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2021-03-19

"The Pity of War"
18 March 1893 Soldier/Poet is born in A short life as many were, cut short by but what a gift he gave the world!

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2021-03-19

"But someone still was yelling out and stumbling"
18th March 1893 the Soldier/Poet is born What incredible words he gave us!

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2021-03-18

Here's a wonderful piece of art from a pupil . It is a free and loose depiction from a line in masterpiece This image was created after my 'virtual' talk to the classes about Wilfred Owen and my book of Dulce et Decorum Est.

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2020-11-14

As we remember on I am always drawn to this as the day that Susan Owen mother was informed of his untimely death. I cannot imagine the emotions she must have felt as the bells were ringing out for the end of

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2020-11-11

"This is terribly moving. I have loved Wilfred Owen's poems since I was a schoolboy, but you have found a way to bring it to a new audience."
- Jeremy Paxman

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2020-11-11

"Whatever hope is yours,
Was my life also"



A critique of war, Owen conveys the inability for anyone but those involved to ever grasp the full truth of the experience of war & the pity of war



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2019-11-12

18th March 1893 Poet was born His importance to literature the sufferings of war & art are immeasurable I was so lucky to spend hours with his original manuscripts letters & photos for my Bk.

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2019-03-11

"up against his pack, After so many days of work and waking, Sleep took him by the brow and laid him back. There, in the happy no-time of his sleeping, Death took him by the heart" from by https://t.co/Q63gBgI4iz

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2018-11-06

Here's my portrait of Wilfred Owen, currently on show as part of my One Thousand Words exhibition at Waterstones, Bloomsbury.

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2018-11-06

Remembering Wilfred Owen who was killed in action on this day in 1918, just one week short of the end of WW1, The Great War, the war to end all wars…

(18/03/1893-04/11/1918)

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2018-11-04