If anyone was unfortunate enough not to see Jeremy Paxman's programme about Wilfred Owen there is an article by him about it here.
It must have been good because after I had insisted on watching it I found my 16 year old checking out some of Owen's poems.
Poetry
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Tuol Sleng
Your screams are in the walls
Lightly, I run my fingers upon them
And feel the texture of your fear
The sharpness of your pain
- keening.
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13 hours ago
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As poetry goes, he was one off the few who did it for me.
Same here! I was mesmerised by 'Dulce et decorum est', I think it was, at school, ooh, over a quarter of a century ago!
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