Tag Archives: war poetry

“Stasera” di Giuseppe Ungaretti

Posted on June 13, 2025 by julian peters comics

Balaustrata di brezza Per appoggiare stasera La mia malinconia. (An illustration inspired by Italian poet Giuseppe Ungaretti’s 1916 poem “Stasera” (“This Evening”). The text, which was composed while Ungaretti was a soldier in WW1, could be translated more or less … Continue reading →

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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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Comics adaptation of Siegfried Sassoon’s “Before the Battle” in Plough Quarterly!

Posted on June 22, 2018 by julian peters comics

The new issue of Plough Quarterly, featuring my adaptation of Siegfried Sassoon’s poem “Before the Battle” (1916), is now out in print and online. You can read the comic here: https://www.plough.com/en/topics/culture/poetry/before-the-battle To view all of the contents of this latest … Continue reading →

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