Jeremy Corbyn has marked Remembrance Sunday by reading from Wilfred Owen's poem 'Futility'. After fulfilling his formal role as Leader of the Opposition at the Cenotaph in Whitehall, Mr Corbyn went on ...

Born on March 18, in 1893, Wilfred Owen (d. 1918) has become one of the famous casualties of World War I. Killed in action at twenty-five, a week before the Armistice that ended the war, he seems to ...

Gently its touch awoke him once, At home, whispering of fields unsown. Always it woke him, even in France, Until this morning and this snow. If anything might rouse him now The kind old sun will know.

R.H. Thomson recites the WW1 poem "Futility" written by soldier and poet Wilfred Owen whose work is part of The World Remembers project. Video by Cole Garside, The Ottawa Citizen Caroline Elliott: The ...

For many people, most of what they know about the futility, sacrifice and tragedy of World War I, they learned through reading the poetry of Wilfred Owen. But what they may not be aware of is how ...

March 21 was declared as World Poetry Day by UNESCO during its 30th General Conference in Paris in 1999, with the aim of supporting linguistic diversity through poetic expression and increasing the ...