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Resources for organisers and presenters of Remembrance Events
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Remembrance Poems and Readings
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About copyright. Simple steps to staying within the law.
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Links to contemporary remembrance poems
A 120 page collection of poems, prayers, lyrics, famous statements and speeches with an introduction on the origin of remembrance events.
Now available direct from the publisher at a reduced price.
The chapters of
Remembrance Poems and Readings
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Introduction
THE TEXTS ORGANISED BY THEME
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Remembrance Events
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Peace
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Forgiveness and Reconciliation
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“Why, Soldiers? Why?”
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Brothers in Arms
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Reasons for War
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Patriotism — Popular Patriotic and Uplifting Hymns and Songs
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Those Remaining
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Reflections on War
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Messages to Those Remaining
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“Say Not Soft Things”
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Personal Loss
OTHER
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Brief introduction to international laws on war
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Brief biographical notes on living contributors
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Authors’ personal introductions to their poems
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Details of remembrance organisations and those offering support for members of armed forces: Remembrance, Support, Peace, Human Rights
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Copyright advice
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Index of Titles and Authors
Contributors include
Laurence Binyon - full text of For the Fallen
ANZAC Requiem
John Milton
John Galsworthy
Kazumi Matsui - Mayor of Hiroshima
Israel Zangwill
Extracts fro The Bible and the Qur'an
Mustafa Kemal Ataturk
Edith Cavell
Vaclav Havel
Wilfred Owen
Charles Sorley
W E Henley
William Noel Hodgson
Edward Thomas,
Winston Churchill
John Locke
William Shakespeare
Samuel Francis Smith
Julia Ward Howe
Isaac Watts
William Thackeray
Ann Fitch, Countess of Winchelsea
Arthur Hugh Clough
Sigmund Freud
General Dwight Eisenhower
Abraham Lincoln
John McCrae
Christina Rosetti
Emily Dickinson
Key facts about
Remembrance Poems and Readings
120 pages paperback. 127mm x 197mm, 5" x 73/4"
Published by Saxon Books ISBN 978-0-9528969-6-8
£11-95 (UK).
Buy direct from the publisher, Saxon Books,
at a reduced price.