Resources: WW1 poetry, stories and music

Here’s a fantastic collection of Australian World War 1 poetry being gathered by a Sydney-based PhD student Dominic Sheridan.  Its updated often, so check back!  There’s also many lovely old photographs of the poets themselves.  He also maintains a Facebook page with more frequent updates.  He has kindly offered to source a range of poems suitable for this project.

Here’s a great list of female poets of the First World War at a British site, scroll down about ⅔ to find a list of Australian Women Poets.  The same site has a great bibliography of women’s stories.

Spirit of the Anzacs music video on Youtube.

This year’s Festival of Music has an Anzac theme.  The website has some great resources.

Here’s some music that was popular in Australia around WW1: songs of war and peace, and here also.

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