The Pity: Modern Responses To War

Four of the UK's most exciting poets premiere work about the First World War.

Commemorating the centenary of the conflict, the Poetry Society has commissioned contemporary responses from Denise Riley, Steve Ely, Warsan Shire and Zaffar Kunial.

Presented on National Poetry Day, these sequences summon less familiar aspects of the war's legacy: from Vogue's directives on mourning attire ('must not depress') and the national passion for séances to the notion of no-man's-land and the rise of modernity.