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Words of WW1 is a student-run project that came together at the University of Glasgow during the centenary of World War One (2014 -2018). In that time a team of dedicated poetry enthusiasts sifted through thousands of poems to select 10 seldom-heard yet just as powerful poems from all sides embroiled on the Western Front. On their work skilled film-makers amassed to turn each poem into a gripping visual piece that exploit the intensive imagery and natural rhythm of the poems. Finally, professional actors from across Scotland carried the poem onto the screen with a critical attention to intonation. 

Poetry recitals have been done before, history has been discussed before, short films have been made before, yet no one has ever attempted to bring them together to form something special. Words of WW1 lies at the natural convergence of these fields and builds a framework that lets these poems speak across the span of 100 years of forgotten sorrow. 

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World War One Commemoration