Soldier and poet Wilfred Owen was killed in action in November 1918, just a week before the Armistice. We look at how his moving poetry was part of his legacy.

Little about young Wilfred Owen hinted at the soldier-poet he would become. Cuthbertson tells us that, growing up, Owen was very much a “mama’s boy” and not a particularly inspired student.

Wilfred Owen, the great British war poet, died a century ago this weekend.. The second lieutenant was killed in action as he led a raiding party across the Sambre-Oise Canal in northern France on ...

Wilfred Owen's The War Poems is still as compelling almost a century after they were written He left the ministry and sought a teaching position in France, where he passed himself off as a member ...

Wilfred Owen’s grave at Ors Cemetery in France. Hektor via Wikimedia Commons, CC BY-ND. These poetic phantoms, spectres, ghosts were not shaped by the fighting alone; more than the trenches, it ...

Wilfred Owen, war poet. Wilfred Owen was born in Shropshire in 1893. At school, he liked drama and poetry and started writing his own poems when he was a teenager.

It is often assumed – as a student, I made the mistake myself – that the poem's author was some sort of bitter, jaundiced pacifist. But the enigma of Wilfred Owen is that he was anything but that.

A new First World War attraction, honouring the life and work of poet Wilfred Owen, has opened near where he was killed the week before the war ended in November 1918.

Poem of the Day: ‘Futility’ Wilfred Owen’s poems constitute the output of a brief adulthood entirely consumed by the consciousness of war, in a generation of men who would be utterly devoured, as a ...

Owen's most celebrated poem, Dulce et Decorum est, was published posthumously. It's title comes from a Latin phrase, meaning "It is sweet and fitting to die for one's country". But Owen uses it ...

The birthplace of war poet Wilfred Owen has gone on the market. Born in 1893 in Oswestry, Shropshire, Owen enlisted in the Army in 1915 and witnessed the trench warfare of World War One firsthand.