England Remembered
Poems by the soldier poets of the Great War (1914-18) and responses by modern day writers and poets.
"The soldiers who sought to share the emotional turmoil of the Great War through their poetry and writings have inspired a group of modern day writers. The photographic images connect us to the past, symbolising the nations collective memory and uniting geographical imagination with a sense of national identity".
The 'England Remembered' book designed by fellow artist, Natalie Dowse, fuses the imagery and texts of the original exhibition with the lines created by animator Helen June Crumpholt.
A collaborative project including work by soldier poets Edward Thomas, Nowell Oxland, Isaac Rosenberg, Robert Graves, Francis Brett Young, E.A. Mackintosh, Ivor Gurney, Francis Ledwidge, Edmund Blunden, R.E. Vernede, E.W. Tennant, Charles Hamilton Sorley, Rupert Brooke and modern day writers Denise Bennett, Christopher Martin, Tom Gorman, Em Rahman, Holly Purslow, Simon Roots, Alison Hill and Timothy Barrow.
The 'England Remembered' ebook will be free to download at a future date and also available to purchase in soft/hard back through Blurb providing donations to H4H (Help for Heroes) or your preferred charity. Photographs published with kind permission of the National Trust and West Dean Gardens. Project supported by the University of Portsmouth.
Read further updates on the ER Project including research for the soldier poets biographies, our modern day writers interviews and contributors posts at englandremembered.blog
