Wilfred Owen

Poets of the Great War

• UNABRIDGED (2 hrs)
• By Wilfred Owen, Siegfried Sassoon, Isaac Rosenberg
• Narrated By Michael Maloney, Jasper Britton

Here are the extraordinary writings of a generation who fought through a war of unprecedented destructive power, and who had to find new voices to express the horror of what they discovered. The great names - Owen, Sassoon - are fully represented, but there are also many poems by lesser-known or unexpected figures, ranging from serving soldiers like Isaac Rosenberg and Richard Aldington to women such as Edith Nesbit and Vera Brittain.

In Flanders Field and Other Poems About War

• UNABRIDGED (53 mins)
• By John McCrae, Wilfred Owen
• Narrated By Ralph Cosham

In World War I, possibly the most horrific modern war, two soldier poets put down their thoughts in poetry telling us much about wars and the people who fight them. This is a wonderful production with a very timely subject.

The Classical Poetry Collection 2

• UNABRIDGED (45 mins)
• By John Keats, William Wordsworth, Wilfred Owen

A selection of classic poetry beautifully enhanced by classical music. Poets include Keats, Wordsworth, and Owen.

The Poems of Wilfred Owen

• UNABRIDGED (46 mins)
• By Wilfred Owen
• Narrated By Greg Wagland

Poems was published in 1920. The poems of that work are included here and are as follows: Strange Meeting; Greater Love; Apologia pro Poemate Meo; The Show; Mental Cases; Parable of the Old Man and the Young; Arms and the Boy;

The Classical Poetry Collection, Volume 3

• UNABRIDGED (48 mins)
• By John Keats, William Wordsworth, William Shakespeare, and others
• Narrated By Ralph Richardson, Richard Burton, Dylan Thomas, and others

The finest voices reading a wonderful selection of poetry accompanied by selected classical music.

The Poetry of Wales

• UNABRIDGED (54 mins)
• By Dylan Thomas, George Herbert, Ann Griffiths, and others
• Narrated By Sian Phillips, Angharad Rees, Richard Mitchley, and others

This proud nation with its long history - sometimes rough, hewn from bleak landscapes, and sometimes gently soft from its comforting voices - has produced a long succession of artists and poets.

In the latter category, Louis MacNeice most probably stands pre-eminent; his words and phrasing are on a plane few can equal and most are in awe of. But in this volume we do put forward others who have their own words and voice to add to this rich tapestry.

The Great Poets: The War Poetry of Wilfred Owen

• UNABRIDGED (1 hr and 19 mins)
• By Wilfred Owen
• Narrated By Anton Lesser

No poet is more closely identified with the First World War than Wilfred Owen. His striking body of work, grim to the point of brutality yet, at the same time, majestic and awe-inspiring, defines the war for us. It is in each of these famous poems that Owen reflects on the four terrible months that he lived through; he conveys the experience of war, the death, the destruction and the filth, through a unique poetic language and a bold artistic vision.

The War Poems

• UNABRIDGED (1 hr and 54 mins)
• By Wilfred Owen
• Narrated By Charlton Griffin

That it required a horrible war to motivate Wilfred Owen to write some of the 20th century's best poetry is symbolic of that great calamity. In a vivid, languorous, mesmerizing style, Owen has left humanity the language of loss. When the Great War broke out in 1914, Owen, along with millions of his compatriots, were drawn into the maw of the world's first mechanized war.

The War Poets

• UNABRIDGED (28 mins)
• By Wilfred Owen, Seigfried Sassoon, Rupert Brooke
• Narrated By David Moore

Arguably some of the most powerful poetry ever written. Classic works written during World War I by Wilfred Owen, Siegried Sassoon and Rupert Brooke.

War Poetry

• UNABRIDGED (35 mins)
• By Wilfred Owen, Sigfried Sassoon, Rudyard Kipling
• Narrated By Phillip J. Mather

Seventeen iconic poems from World War One, including: Wilfred Owen's "Dulce et Deorum Est"; "In Flanders Fields" by John McRae; "Counter Attack" by Siegfried Sassoon; Rupert Brook's "The Soldier"; and many more that bring the horrors of the Great War vividly to life through the eyes of those living them.

Dulce et Decorum Est

• UNABRIDGED (2 mins)
• By Wilfred Owen
• Narrated By Phillip J. Mather

Wilfred Owen’s famous poem was written in 1917 during World War I. Dulce et Decorum Est describes the horrors of the front lines and the gruesome effect of a gas attack. It is a rebuke to those that would glorify war. The title, taken from Horace, can be translated as “It is sweet and glorious to die for one’s country”.

The Poetry of April: A Month in Verse

• UNABRIDGED (39 mins)
• By Wilfred Owen, Robert Louis Stevenson, Henry Van Dyke, and others
• Narrated By Richard Mitchley, Ghizela Rowe

April - the fourth month of the year in the Gregorian calendar heralds spring in earnest and, of course, April showers and perhaps other unsettled weather. For our poets, including Owen, Stevenson, Van Dyke, Hardy, and Shelley, the month provides a rich source for them to muse upon.

The Poetry of Wilfred Owen

• UNABRIDGED (29 mins)
• By Wilfred Owen
• Narrated By David Moore

Widely regarded as one of the leading war poets, Owen's work is powerful and shocking, illustrating the true horror faced by soldiers during the First World War.