TUESDAY, November 11th at 7PM: THE POETRY OF THE GREAT WAR

Photo by Pauline Eccles from Wikimedia Commons

Every war had seen poetry created, from the bardic histories of ancient times, to more modern contemplation of the the nature of war.  The horrors of "The Great War" led to a new kind of poetry that broke with Victorian/ Edwardian conventions, from which we've never looked back.

WWI saw the world's first experience of fully mechanized war, chemical warfare, and the banality of evil in the great losses in the trenches that went on and on. And for the first time in modern experience, poets in large numbers went against the conventions of patriotism and nobility to describe what was really happening.

The Seanchai Staff gathers in honor of Armistice Day & Veteran's Day, live in voice.