Merseyside at War 1914-18 – The War Poetry of the ‘Great War’
On 30th November 2013 a poetry event was held in the Stanton Fuller Lecture Theatre, LJMU Avril Robarts Library, Tithebarn Street, Liverpool. Introduced by Lord David Alton, Director of LJMU Foundation for Citizenship.
Followed by an introduction to the Merseyside at War project by Professor Frank McDonough. At 11am a two minutes’ silence was held, followed by readings from War Poetry of the ‘Great War’.
The readings can be played and downloaded below. To download, right-click on the title of the reading and select ‘Save Target As…’
Anthem for Doomed Youth – Wilfred Owen
Read by Professor the Lord Alton of Liverpool
Dulce et Decorum est – Wilfred Owen
Read by Pete Wylie
Abraham Lincoln Walks at Midnight – Vachel Lindsay
Read by Dr Edward Harcourt
I Have a Rendezvous with Death – Alan Seeger
Read by Dr Edward Harcourt
The Breasts of Tiresias (prologue excerpt) – Guillaume Apollinaire
Read by Nick Birkinshaw
Aftermath – Siegfried Sassoon
Read by Dr Sonny Kandola
An Irish Airman Forsees His Death – WB Yeats
Read by Dr Gerry Smyth
Dreamers – Siegfried Sassoon
Read by Professor Joe Moran
I Looked Up From My Writing – Thomas Hardy
Read by Professor Joe Moran
The Soldiers’ Cairn – Mary Symon
Read by Professor Glenda Norquay