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“Before the Battle” by Siegfried Sassoon

Posted on November 11, 2018 by julian peters comics

In honour of Remembrance Day and of the hundredth anniversary of the end of WWI, an adaptation of a poem by my favourite war poet, Siegfried Sassoon. Sassoon (1886-1967) wrote this poem only a few days before the Battle of … Continue reading →

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“In Flanders Field” by John McCrae (1915)

Posted on November 11, 2015 by julian peters comics

In honour of Remembrance Day, I am reposting my adaptation into comics of “In Flanders Fields) the famous WWI poem by John McCrae. The poem was originally created as part of my residency at the Victoria University of Wellington in … Continue reading →

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