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Monday, 13 January 2020

Jelena Spiridonovic-Savic (1891 – 1974 –Serbian poet

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In order to highlight the global impact of the war I have tried to find poets from as many countries as possible. For that reason some ...
Saturday, 7 December 2019

Akiko Yosano (1878 – 1942) – Japanese Poet, writer, feminist, pacifist and social reformer

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Japan was one of Britain's allies during the First World War Akiko Yosano was the pen-name of the Japanese writer, poet, feminist,...
Monday, 4 November 2019

Jean McKishnie Blewett (1872 - 1934) - Canadian journalist, author and poet

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Jean Blewett featured in the very first exhibition of Female Poets of the First World War held in November 2012 at The Wilfred Owen Story, ...
Saturday, 2 November 2019

Sylvia Townsend Warner (1893 – 1978) - British writer and poet; WW1 munitions worker

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Sylvia Nora Townsend Warner was born in Harrow on the Hill, Middlesex, UK on 6th December 1893. Her parents were George Townsend Warner  a...
Saturday, 12 October 2019

Grace D. Vanamee (1867 – 1946) - American Suffragist, Teacher, Writer and Poet

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Grace Davis was born on 15th September 1876 in North Adams, Massachusetts, United States. Her parents were George Davis and his wife Elect...
Friday, 4 October 2019

Anna Jakobsen a Danish poet who wrote a poem about her son who was killed

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With grateful thanks to the wonderful Pike Grey on Twitter who not only found this poem for me but also translated it from the original D...
Saturday, 14 September 2019

Ella Dunnington Jefferson (1888 – 1934) - WW1 VAD and poet

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Ella's Red Cross Record Card It is always exciting to find a hitherto undiscovered poem – here is one, written by Ella Dunnington J...