PICS from Josephine Hart Poetry Hour: Poems from the First World War

Guildhall School of Music and Drama has shared information on Josephine Hart Poetry Hour: Poems from the First World War that took place at the Barbican Centre on November 10, 2014 along with beautiful pictures from the reading. 

We are sharing a few pictures with you here, and please visit the Guildhall School of Music and Drama FB page for more information and pictures. 

Please enjoy!

copyright: Mark Allan & (c) Guildhall School 2014

From Guildhall School of Music and Drama Facebook Page:

"As part of the First World War centenary commemorations, on 10 November the Guildhall School and the Josephine Hart Poetry Foundation presented an evening of WWI poetry in Milton Court Concert Hall. Novelist, poetry anthologist and Guildhall alumna Josephine Hart founded the Josephine Hart Poetry Hour in order to bring poetry in performance to a broader public audience.

copyright: Mark Allan & (c) Guildhall School 2014

Throughout the recital a total of thirty First World War poems were performed, including Wilfred Owen’s Dulce et Decorum Est, W. B. Yeats’ An Irish Airman Foresees His Death and Rudyard Kipling’s Epitaphs of The War. Readers included some of the School’s distinguished Acting alumni – Damian Lewis (1993), Dominic West (1995), Freddie Fox (2010), Emily Berrington (2012) and the School’s Director of Drama Christian Burgess, with introductions by Guildhall alumna, actress Niamh Cusack.

Left to Right: Damian Lewis, Emily Berrington, Freddie Fox, Christian Burgess and Dominic West
copyright: Mark Allan & (c) Guildhall School 2014

The event was in support of the Guildhall School’s Scholarships Fund. All photos by Mark Allan & (c) Guildhall School 2014."