War Poets Association

{{update|date=December 2024}} {{Short description|British charitable organisation}} The '''War Poets Association''' is a UK-based charitable organisation established in 2004. Launched at a reception in the British Embassy in Paris, in July 2004, it aims to promote interest in war poetry of the twentieth century, primarily in English. The association organises regular events, has a website and publishes an annual journal.{{Citation needed|date=December 2007}}

The association is interested in all poetry of conflict written during the twentieth century.<ref>{{Cite web|url=http://www.warpoets.org/conflicts/|title=Conflicts|date=2014-01-07|website=The War Poets Association|language=en-GB|access-date=2018-12-20}}</ref>

It holds records poems with the subject World War I, World War II and Spanish Civil War and conflicts between Ireland and Northern Ireland.

The current president is Tim Kendall, Professor of English at the University of Exeter.<ref>''Ivor Gurney: The Poet Who Loved the War, BBC 1, 2014''</ref> ==References== *Tim Kendall, ''Modern English War Poetry'' (Oxford University Press, 2006) {{Reflist}}

==External links== * [http://www.warpoets.org/ War Poets Association]

Category:Poetry organisations based in the United Kingdom Category:War poetry Category:Arts organizations established in 2004 Category:2004 establishments in England {{DEFAULTSORT:War Poets Association (WPA)}}