Sassoon and Owen capture in verse the sheer frightfulness of trench warfare; they are the supreme English war poets of their ...

Sir Lawrence Alma-Tadema, Sappho (the poetess) and Alcaeus. What are the top poems inspired by ancient Greece? Credit: Wikimedia Commons / Walters Museum Poetry stands as one of humanity’s oldest art ...

Leon Gellert penned his poem, Anzac Cove, in 1918. There's no longer any blood to be seen on the stones of Gallipoli, but the lonely hills, silent valleys and empty beach remain intact.

The first, second and fifth lines of a limerick rhyme. The same goes for the third and fourth lines.

Swimming holidays are the ultimate in slow travel – and since the pandemic, they've become more popular than ever.

After the evacuation at Gallipoli, ANZAC troops had been sent back to Egypt ... And leading this team was an Australian man famous throughout the English-speaking world for his poetry: AB ‘Banjo’ ...

This was the date on which the Australian and New Zealand Army Corps (‘ANZACs’) had landed at Gallipoli and had made great sacrifices ... He carefully selected hymns, odes and poems that would be ...

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Milton, Blake, Shelley, Bellamy and Kipling all feature prominently, as does Attlee’s own modest contribution to literature, the poetry he wrote in his youth ... Inside Mr Attlee, the leader of the ...