Siegfried Sassoon
Benediction review – artful Siegfried Sassoon biopic full of unresolved yearning
The war poet’s life provides rich material for director Terence Davies to explore his preoccupations with sexuality, religion and the search for redemption
Mark Kermode Observer film critic
22, May, 2022 @7:00 AM
Terence Davies on sex, death and Benediction
As his Siegfried Sassoon biopic is released, the director opens up about his ill-fated straight romance, being snubbed by Bafta and how it felt to sleep in the bed where his father died
Ryan Gilbey
20, May, 2022 @5:00 AM
Benediction review – Terence Davies’ piercingly sad Siegfried Sassoon drama
The tragic life of the poet and soldier is revisited with melancholy and theatricality in a bleak, and often hard to watch, biopic
Peter Bradshaw
12, Sep, 2021 @8:30 PM
Poetry and pretence: the phoney Native American who fooled Bloomsbury set
A new book reveals how the Canadian war poet Frank Prewett deceived his lover Siegfried Sassoon and the literary elite
Donna Ferguson
02, Aug, 2020 @6:00 AM
Landmark poems of the last century
Far from being elitist, poetry in the last 100 years has been defined by an urgent desire to communicate. Here are five poems that each illuminate their age
John Burnside
03, Oct, 2019 @9:00 AM
Robert Graves: From Great War Poet to Good-bye to All That – review
Jean Moorcroft Wilson’s commanding new biography reveals the poet to be a slipperier character than we imagined
Matthew Adams
12, Aug, 2018 @8:00 AM
How well do you know literary friendships? – quiz
A century after Siegfried Sassoon and Wilfred Owen began an inspiring friendship, we’re testing you on book pals, from Neil Gaiman and Terry Pratchett to Harper Lee and Truman Capote
Alison Flood
17, Aug, 2017 @3:17 PM
My uncle Siegfried: Sister Jessica Gatty on her life-changing friendship with the great war poet
Siegfried Sassoon’s intense friendship with his niece caused a family fallout and led to her becoming a nun. As new opera Silver Birch explores the writer’s life and beliefs, we meet her in her convent
Joanna Moorhead
25, Jul, 2017 @5:08 PM
Pop-up events showcase rare literary treasures around the globe
This Thursday, antiquarian book fairs will spring up in locations the world over – from a woolshed in the Australian bush to the top of a Chicago skyscraper. Here is all you need to know, plus some of the rarest specimens you might bump into
Marta Bausells
22, Apr, 2015 @3:40 PM
Not About Heroes review – engaging account of war poetry in the making
Stephen MacDonald’s first world war piece dramatises Siegfried Sassoon’s creative impact on Wilfred Owen, writes Alfred Hickling
Alfred Hickling
18, Nov, 2014 @3:53 PM
Bob Miller, the man who lived a dozen lives while doing good
Farewell to a remarkable Dagenham schoolfriend
Roy Greenslade
16, Sep, 2014 @7:30 AM
Why we need literature to remember the first world war
Teenage site member alannahbee argues that we need literature, not facts and figures, to help young people fully understand that the war was fought by people just like them
alannahbee
04, Aug, 2014 @7:00 AM
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