War poets

There is no better way to describe a place devastated by the battles of the First World World War than to pronounce the words of the soldiers who saw the destruction. Listen to their words, their memories and their transcription. You will understand what you cannot see anymore. This tour connects the memorials to the voices of some of the following poets:

Somme North: Wilfred Owen, Thomas Kettle, Edmund Blunden, J. R. R. Tolkien and also Xavier Hanotte and Eric Bogle

Somme Center: Victor Ratcliffe, Ernst Jünger, Thomas Kettle, Siegfried Sassoon, Francis Clere Hitchcock, Noel Hodgson, Harry Fellows and Owen Sheers

Somme South: Alan Seeger, Goerges Duhamel, Alfred Lichtenstein, Gustav Sack and also Louis Delluc

Artois: Siegfried Sassoon, Blaise Cendrars, Henri Barbusse, Ernst Jünger, Edlef Köppen, Louis Barthas

3-8 hours