Working with Tony Barber (exīuzzcocks and Lack of Knowledge) as engineer and co-producer, they The poetry is in the pity’, thereby suggesting that it was the pity which was foremost in his thoughts over and above the poetry which, in these circumstances (and not surprisingly), played a subsidiary role.įocussing on similar themes, in 2012, Penny decided to record an album of covers focussed on his favourite songs, songs which had been seminal to the making of the person he had become. Prior to Wilfred’s death in battle in the last weeks of the conflict, Owen had written of his poetry saying, ‘My subject is war, and the pity of war.
Over the past four years, 2014 to 2018, Penny Rimbaud has been performing the War Poems of Wilfred Owen, these being an unrelenting and powerful condemnation of the carnage of WW1.
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