Poems for Peace competition – Highly Commended: Rosie Lewis
A Polite Request Do not cast aside the ties that bind us, Without them we are isolated, And without the fellowship of other nations, We are fearful, capricious and febrile. Do not cut the bonds of trade, And thereby sever the prosperity, And the mutual benefit that commerce brings; It overrides the desire to damage […]
Poems for Peace competition – Highly Commended: Sayandeep Das
A Tree In The Bloom She has always remembered The day she left her soul behind In a land Torn with violence and war‚Ķ She left her life — Almoud, Mia and other children she played with Down the street ‚Ķ. She couldn’t see straight Her eyes were blurred with tears With the memories of […]
Poems for Peace competition – Highly Commended: Ciéra Cree Drury
Shirley May is awarded an honorary RSL Fellowship
Poems for Peace competition – Highly Commended: Izzy Crane
Ursula Owen is awarded an honorary RSL Fellowship
Poems for Peace competition – Highly Commended: Angelina Borzini-Castor
Ursula Owen is awarded an honorary RSL Fellowship
The Swimmer
November 2018 marks 100 years since the end of the First World War. The RSL is marking this anniversary by looking back to Wilfred Owen’s words for peace, and looking forward to how poetry today can take us towards a more peaceful future. We have commissioned 14 of our poet Fellows to respond to Wilfred […]
Poems for Peace competition – Highly Commended: Mohamed Assaf
Marina Salandy-Brown is awarded an honorary RSL Fellowship
Poems for Peace competition – 3rd Prize: Alwiyah Qassim
Marina Salandy-Brown is awarded an honorary RSL Fellowship
Poems for Peace competition – 2nd Prize: Halema Malak
Sarah Sanders is awarded an honorary RSL Fellowship
Peace Poetry anthology
Click the cover above to download the Peace Poetry anthology. In his poem ‘From My Diary, July 1914’, Wilfred Owen recalls a time before war, with Bees Shaking the heavy dews from bloom and frond. Boys Bursting the surface of the ebony pond. Flashes Of swimmers carving thro’ the sparkling cold. Fleshes Gleaming with […]
Naw dros heddwch/ Nine for Peace
November 2018 marks 100 years since the end of the First World War. The RSL is marking this anniversary by looking back to Wilfred Owen’s words for peace, and looking forward to how poetry today can take us towards a more peaceful future. We have commissioned 14 of our poet Fellows to respond to Wilfred […]
Recruitment
November 2018 marks 100 years since the end of the First World War. The RSL is marking this anniversary by looking back to Wilfred Owen’s words for peace, and looking forward to how poetry today can take us towards a more peaceful future. We have commissioned 14 of our poet Fellows to respond to Wilfred […]