Proportionality: Lessons from the Somme by Biggar, N

“…This article uses the Battle of the Somme—a byword for immorally profligate warfare—to consider how proportionality should be understood. …”

“Oblique refractions”: Simon Armitage’s poetics of commemoration in Still, A Poetic Response to Photographs of the Somme Battlefield (2016) by Montin Sarah

“…Before his appointment as Poet Laureate in 2019, his consecration as public poet came with the commission of Still in 2016, an intermedial collection commemorating the centenary of the Battle of the Somme. This Poetic Response to Photographs of the Somme Battlefield, encapsulates and highlights the tensions that can already be sensed under the everyday, effortless verse (Armitage, 2010) of his previous commemorative poems written in the 2000s. …”
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History and Stories through Jeremy Deller’s Performances by ROBERTO PINTO

“…With these words Jeremy Deller introduces us to his We Are Here Because We Are Here, a true monument celebrating the centenary of the Battle of the Somme on 1st July 1916, in which almost twenty thousand British soldiers succumbed. …”
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A Bard in the Trenches by Leonardo Piana

“…A World War I veteran who had been injured in the tragic battle at the Somme, Jones had converted to Catholicism and was developing a modernist aesthetics, producing paintings and engravings where scenes from the gospels (the flagellation, the crucifixion, the empty tomb) were set on the French front, carried out by helpless British infantrymen. …”
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