Siegfried Sassoon's poetry

[MichaelBully]

From the Siegfried Sassoon Fellowship ......................

Rufus Graham and Georg Nikoloff are performing a short programme of Sassoon poems at the Tristan Bates Theatre. The theatre is part of the Actors Centre, at the top of Tower Street, just off Shaftesbury Avenue and close to Cambridge Circus. The reading is called "Accidental Hero" and will take place on Saturday November 26th at 4.00 pm and will last about an hour, and there will be time for discussion etc afterwards in the cafe/bar of the Centre. Tickets are £8 full price, £5 concessions, and all proceeds will be going to the Royal British Legion. You can find out more from the theatre's website: http://www.tristanba....uk/Also_on.asp and it is possible to book on-line.

[kenneth505]

This looks like a great event. Especially if your exposure to Sassoon is limited to Barker's Regeneration.

There is a lot of substance in his work.

[MichaelBully]

Hello Ken, personally I find Pat Barker's work difficult to read. If the Seigfried Sassoon character says something in the novel, I want to know whether or not Sassoon really said it. Having actual historical personalities fictionalised gives me a bit of a headache .

There is a lot of information on the Sassoon Fellowship website. Jean Moorcroft Wilson's seminal two volume biography on Sassoon is going to be updated and re-published in one volume . And should include at least one of the seven Sassoon war poems that have just been discovered. Regards, Michael Bully

http://www.sassoonfellowship.org/

[MichaelBully]

Page about latest IWM purchases and Siegfried Sassoon

http://www.1914.org/...wm-collections/

[MichaelBully]

Some interesting background information on Craiglockhart Hospital ,somewhere I would like to visit.

http://sites.scran.a.../Warp/index.htm