Simon Armitage has been commissioned by 14-18 NOW: WW1 Centenary
Art Commissions, Norfolk & Norwich Festival and Writers' Centre
Norwich to write a sequence of poems in response to 26 panoramic
photographs of battlefields associated with the Battle of the Somme
chosen from archives at Imperial War Museum, London. The Somme
Offensive took place on the Western Front between July and November
1916, and is considered to be one of the bloodiest in British
military history. Armitage has written thirty poems of between two
and 20 lines that are versions of The Georgics by the Roman poet
Virgil. Paired with black-and-white images that are a hundred years
old, the contemporary words meld with the visual devastations of
war to haunting effect.
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