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Plans for 2018

A recent meeting of the Dunsden Owen Association discussed some exciting new plans to commemorate the hundredth anniversary of the end of the first world war. As well as the events already described on this site, it is hoped to stage a series of themed events for children and adults at Dunsden’s impressively refurbished village hall. Plans

Snowdrops at All Saints

This periodic event at All Saints Church, Dunsden provides a good opportunity to see inside the church where the young Wilfred Owen was assistant to the Rector. For more information see the church website. Sunday 18 February, 2018 Church Open Day, 10 am to 5pm Guided tours of the church and grounds Live music and

An invitation to France

Our friends in Ors would be pleased to welcome you at their annual commemoration of the death of Wilfred Owen, held each year on November 4th. Those that have been previously say that it’s a memorable and enjoyable occasion.

Exciting opportunity to hear new settings of Owen

Our events list contains details of a concert performance in London on October 8 of three Owen settings by local composer David Breeze.

‘The Send-Off’ – posted here for the victims of the Somme

Description at the Wilfred Owen Association   Down the close, darkening lanes they sang their way To the siding-shed, And lined the train with faces grimly gay. Their breasts were stuck all white with wreath and spray As men’s are, dead. Dull porters watched them, and a casual tramp Stood staring hard, Sorry to miss

Recording of musical setting of Deep Under Turfy Grass now online

Reading-based composer David Breeze’s setting of Wilfred Owen’s Dunsden poem ‘Deep Under Turfy Grass’ received its premiere in Woking last year. A studio recording has now been released and is available on SoundCloud. The song is performed by Nigel Evans-Thompson (Baritone) and Matthew Rickard (Piano). Recorded at University of Surrey, November 2015 by Robert Gilmour.

‘The life cycle’ at Coppid Hall, November 2015

This review by Joyce Reed was printed in the Issue 46 of The Bridge, newsletter of the Sonning & Sonning Eye Society. Held at Coppid Hall, Binfield Heath, with the generous support of Lord & Lady Phillimore, and presented by the Dunsden Owen Association, this inventive evening was admirably introduced by Jennifer Leach, to whose

Listen to Owen’s Deep Under Turfy Grass

At a Dunsden Owen Association event in November 2015 we were privileged to hear Professor Peter Pearson read Owen’s ‘Deep Under Turfy Grass’ which was written while he was in Dunsden. You can hear a recording of the poem here. Read more about the poem on the website of the Wilfred Owen Association.

Upcoming Events

Visit by Friends of Reading Museum

Dunsden

February 3, 2018

From 1.30pm

Snowdrops at All Saints

All Saints Church, Dunsden

February 18, 2018

10am to 5pm

A concert at All Saints, Dunsden

All Saints Church, Dunsden

November 10, 2018

7.30pm

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The Dunsden Owen Association exists to celebrate the life and work of the First World War poet Wilfred Owen who lived in the village of Dunsden, South Oxfordshire from 1911–13.

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