Power and Conflict poets

Who they are, in a few lines. Tap one for their quotes.

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Percy Bysshe Shelley →

Romantic poet, died at 29. Hated kings. Ozymandias is his joke on all of them.

Poet, painter, printer. Walked London and wrote down what he heard.

Romantic poet of the Lake District. The Prelude is his life story in verse.

Victorian poet. Wrote poems where one person talks and gives themselves away.

The Queen's poet. Wrote the Light Brigade poem weeks after the battle, from a newspaper report.

Fought in the trenches. Killed one week before the war ended, aged 25.

Irish poet, Nobel Prize. Grew up on a farm. Storm on the Island is about the wind, and maybe about Northern Ireland.

Poet of animals and violence. His father survived Gallipoli and never spoke about it.

Poet Laureate. Remains is a real soldier's story from a documentary.

Poet and designer. Poppies is a mother's poem, written for the Iraq and Afghanistan wars.

Poet Laureate before Armitage. War Photographer came from a friend who took the pictures.

Born in Pakistan, raised in Glasgow, lives in London and Mumbai. Poet and artist.

The Emigrée is about a city she made up, so it could be any city anyone has lost.

Born in Guyana. Writes in the voice he speaks in. Checking Out Me History is a drum.

Doctor and poet. Kamikaze is told by the pilot's daughter.