WWI Poetry Worldwide

[Christopher]

Dear all

 

I am currently attempting to broaden up the scope of a World War One Poetry anthology which I have been compiling for some time now. 

This I use for different reasons and intentions, one of them being a WWI Poetry feature which is a fixture in VIFFflash, the Newsletter of the Friends of the In Flanders Fields Museum here in Ypres (or Ieper).

 

Following the success of an exhibition entitled World War One - Five Continents in Flanders (2005) and the book - which unfortunately is not available in English - to go along with it, so far I have, of course, come across poems in English (UK, Scotland, Ireland, the US, Canada), but also in French (mainly from France and Belgium's French-speaking community), German (Germany and Austria), Dutch (Flanders and the Netherlands), Italian (mainly Giuseppe Ungaretti) and even one coming from India (in its English version).

 

I wonder whether anyone of you would be in the know of more (quality) poems written either during or shortly after the war and would be willing to share your knowledge with me by giving me some useful hints. One of the blanks or gaps in my selection so far might well be Australia and New Zealand (the Anzacs, as I am sure you know), but I wonder whether any poetry would be available from, say, Portuguese or African or other Asiatic-born soldier-poets.   

 

Thanking you in anticipation!

 

Chris

 

PS The completely refurbished In Flanders Fields Museum (IFFM 2.0, as we dub it), which was reopened for visitors this June, is an absolute must-see. In its first month it attracted a staggering 35,000 visitors.  

       

[Elsa Franker]

Dear Chris,

I´m afraid I cannot be of much use to you in trying to find new WWI poetry. Could the web-site, Great War Fiction, web-link:

 http://greatwarfiction.wordpress.com/

be of any use to you?

Congratulations to the success of the re-opened IFFM 2.0 museum. What changes have you done to it? Is the focus still on how the war-fare affected ordinary people and how they fared? I found it very interesting that I could follow what had happened a certain person during and after the WWI. I hope the museum shop with all the books and souvenirs still is there. Would I recognise it when visiting it again?

Best

Elsa

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