Vernon Road

Scarborough

Yorkshire. YO11 2NN 

 

 

Thursday 18th September         7.30pm

Friday 19th September              2.30pm (with post-show talk, free to ticket-holders)

Friday 19th September              7.30pm (with post-show talk, free to ticket-holders)

Saturday 20th September          2.30pm

Saturday 20th September          7.30pm

 

PLUS:

 

Poetry Writing workshop 

Saturday 20th September         10.30am - 12.00pm

£3 per person, £5 family ticket (up to 4 people), Veterans enter free.

 

 

Having been discharged in November, Wilfred Owen spent Christmas 1917 with the Manchester's reserve battalion at Scarborough. It was here he read Under Fire, the first-hand account of a French soldier's harrowing experiences in the Great War, and a strong influence on Owen's writing.

 

Thanks to Siegfried Sassoon, Owen also met several other authors in the late months of 1917, including Robert Graves - a fellow war poet - and H. G. Wells, the acclaimed science fiction author.

 

In March 1918 Owen was posted to Northern Command at Ripon, where he spent many of his off-duty hours writing in a rented attic; this period, which lasted until Wilfred was judged to be fit to serve again in June, ranks alongside the months in Craiglockhart as Owen's most poetically productive and important.