{"id":4944,"date":"2025-11-06T11:40:26","date_gmt":"2025-11-06T11:40:26","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blogs.napier.ac.uk\/library\/?p=4944"},"modified":"2025-11-05T11:49:51","modified_gmt":"2025-11-05T11:49:51","slug":"poetry-under-fire-what-poems-did-during-the-first-world-war","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.napier.ac.uk\/library\/2025\/11\/06\/poetry-under-fire-what-poems-did-during-the-first-world-war\/","title":{"rendered":"Poetry under fire: what poems did during the First World War"},"content":{"rendered":"<h1 data-ogsc=\"black\"><b data-ogsc=\"\" data-olk-copy-source=\"MessageBody\">Poetry under fire: what poems did during the First World War<\/b><\/h1>\n<div data-ogsc=\"black\">5.30pm, Tuesday 11 November 2025<\/div>\n<div data-ogsc=\"black\">Craiglockhart Campus, Edinburgh Napier University (hybrid)<\/div>\n<div aria-hidden=\"true\" data-ogsc=\"black\"><\/div>\n<div data-ogsc=\"black\">What did the First World War\u00a0<i data-ogsc=\"\">do<\/i>\u00a0to poetry? What did poetry\u00a0<i data-ogsc=\"\">do<\/i>\u00a0during the First World War? In this lecture,\u00a0<b data-ogsc=\"\">Dr Julia Ribeiro Thomaz<\/b>\u00a0will explore a brand new corpus of war poets to interrogate not what is a good or bad war poem nor what war poems say about the war, but rather the social and cultural functions accomplished by poetry in 1914-1918: inventing itself, creating social links, anchoring the war in relation to a poetic past and multiple imagined futures, mediating the experience of war, and producing knowledge about the conflict. She will explore how the expansion of our definition of war poetry allows us to ask new questions about the First World War, as well as future possibilities to continue broadening our understanding of what war poetry was and, above all, what it did and continues doing for those writing and reading it.<\/div>\n<div aria-hidden=\"true\" data-ogsc=\"black\"><\/div>\n<div data-ogsc=\"black\"><b data-ogsc=\"\">Dr Julia Ribeiro Thomaz<\/b> is a postdoctoral researcher at Universit\u00e9 de Lille. She completed her doctorate on French poetry of the First World War, at Universit\u00e9 Paris Nanterre.\u00a0 Julia has already published widely in academic journals, and is a Fellow of the International Society for First World War Studies.<\/div>\n<div aria-hidden=\"true\" data-ogsc=\"black\"><\/div>\n<div><span data-ogsc=\"black\">This lecture continues the annual series of Remembrance lectures at Edinburgh Napier University, marking the historical significance of Craiglockhart as a War Hospital during the First World War, famously the meeting place of Wilfred Owen and Siegfried Sassoon.\u00a0 We also remember our late colleague Catherine Walker, who was for many years curator of the War Poets Collection.\u00a0 Funding comes from the\u00a0<\/span><span data-ogsc=\"rgb(70, 120, 134)\"><u data-ogsc=\"\"><a id=\"OWA7d14e763-d376-dc50-d2f5-328f2a106bc9\" title=\"https:\/\/www.napier.ac.uk\/about-us\/our-schools\/school-of-arts-and-creative-industries\/about-our-school\/CAMC-Research-Centre\" href=\"https:\/\/www.napier.ac.uk\/about-us\/our-schools\/school-of-arts-and-creative-industries\/about-our-school\/CAMC-Research-Centre\" data-auth=\"NotApplicable\" data-linkindex=\"0\" data-ogsc=\"rgb(70, 120, 134)\">Centre for Arts, Media and Culture<\/a><\/u><\/span><span data-ogsc=\"black\">\u00a0and the\u00a0<\/span><span data-ogsc=\"rgb(70, 120, 134)\"><u data-ogsc=\"\"><a id=\"OWA99395efd-814a-d404-c44d-206aeb5022ea\" title=\"https:\/\/www.napier.ac.uk\/about-us\/our-schools\/the-business-school\/our-research\/military-transitions-research-centre\" href=\"https:\/\/www.napier.ac.uk\/about-us\/our-schools\/the-business-school\/our-research\/military-transitions-research-centre\" data-auth=\"NotApplicable\" data-linkindex=\"1\" data-ogsc=\"rgb(70, 120, 134)\">Centre for Military Research, Education &amp; Public Engagement<\/a><\/u><\/span><span data-ogsc=\"black\">.<\/span><\/div>\n<div aria-hidden=\"true\" data-ogsc=\"black\"><\/div>\n<div data-ogsc=\"black\">This year the event is also the Dennis Showalter Memorial Lecture, selected by the International Society for First World War Studies. Named after Dennis Showalter, the leading historian of Germany during the war and a longtime friend and supporter of the Society, it is delivered each year by a leading early career researcher in First World War Studies.<\/div>\n<div aria-hidden=\"true\" data-ogsc=\"black\"><\/div>\n<div><span data-ogsc=\"black\">The event is held in the Rivers Suite at Edinburgh Napier University\u2019s Craiglockhart Campus (<\/span><span data-ogsc=\"rgb(70, 120, 134)\"><u data-ogsc=\"\"><a id=\"OWA88954197-a620-899e-873e-1a7ca64831f6\" title=\"https:\/\/maps.app.goo.gl\/1ooYaLisQVj1XrFC8\" href=\"https:\/\/maps.app.goo.gl\/1ooYaLisQVj1XrFC8\" data-auth=\"NotApplicable\" data-linkindex=\"2\" data-ogsc=\"rgb(70, 120, 134)\">Google map<\/a><\/u><\/span><span data-ogsc=\"black\">\u00a0|\u00a0<\/span><span data-ogsc=\"rgb(70, 120, 134)\"><u data-ogsc=\"\"><a id=\"OWA05d67941-59da-57bf-20c4-c71108214198\" title=\"https:\/\/my.napier.ac.uk\/life-on-campus\/getting-to-campus\/craiglockhart-travel\" href=\"https:\/\/my.napier.ac.uk\/life-on-campus\/getting-to-campus\/craiglockhart-travel\" data-auth=\"NotApplicable\" data-linkindex=\"3\" data-ogsc=\"rgb(70, 120, 134)\">travel info<\/a><\/u><\/span><span data-ogsc=\"black\">).\u00a0 There will be a wine reception from 5.30pm; the lecture will start around 6pm.\u00a0 The event will also be streamed via Zoom.<\/span><\/div>\n<div aria-hidden=\"true\" data-ogsc=\"black\"><\/div>\n<div><span data-ogsc=\"black\">The event is free but we ask that you sign up at this link:\u00a0<\/span><span data-ogsc=\"rgb(70, 120, 134)\"><u data-ogsc=\"\"><a id=\"OWA56205dd1-0a01-2546-09ec-10d9620cf1c5\" title=\"https:\/\/www.eventbrite.co.uk\/e\/remembrance-dennis-showalter-memorial-lecture-julia-ribeiro-thomaz-tickets-1661058473609\" href=\"https:\/\/www.eventbrite.co.uk\/e\/remembrance-dennis-showalter-memorial-lecture-julia-ribeiro-thomaz-tickets-1661058473609\" data-auth=\"NotApplicable\" data-linkindex=\"4\" data-ogsc=\"rgb(70, 120, 134)\">https:\/\/www.eventbrite.co.uk\/e\/remembrance-dennis-showalter-memorial-lecture-julia-ribeiro-thomaz-tickets-1661058473609<\/a><\/u><\/span><\/div>\n<div>By Andrew Frayn<\/div>\n<div>Read more about the <a href=\"https:\/\/blogs.napier.ac.uk\/library\/?s=war+poets\">War Poets Collection<\/a><\/div>\n<div aria-hidden=\"true\" data-ogsc=\"black\"><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Poetry under fire: what poems did during the First World War 5.30pm, Tuesday 11 November 2025 Craiglockhart Campus, Edinburgh Napier University (hybrid) What did the First World War\u00a0do\u00a0to poetry? 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