I am pleased to share that my article, “Owen and Sassoon Reconsidered: WWI Trauma, Memory and Contemporary Anti-War Poetry in the Post-Everything Era’”, has been published in Tiempo devorado (vol. 10, no. 1, 2025).
The piece appears in the special issue “Cultures de desmobilització. La construcció dels excombatents i el seu impacte al món actual”, for which Dr Albert Soler Ruda served as guest editor and kindly invited me to contribute. In this context, my article examines how contemporary poets such as Carol Ann Duffy and Jackie Kay re-read and respond to Wilfred Owen and Siegfried Sassoon in the anthology 1914: Poetry Remembers.
Drawing on theories of cultural memory and postmemory, I explore how First World War poetry continues to shape the ways we imagine conflict, mourning and dissent in the twenty-first century. The article argues that the Great War remains a crucial reference point in what I describe as the “post-everything” era, and that these intergenerational poetic dialogues reactivate and transform the memory of war for new readers.
The article is available open access through the UAB Dipòsit Digital de Documents and the journal’s website.