Christopher Logue, who has died in aged 85, had a diverse career that involved poetry, acting, writing for the theatre and cinema and contributing to Private Eye. But his reworking, over 40 years, of ...

War Music, which has been appearing in instalments since 1962, is serially or perhaps systemically unfinished. When Christopher Logue died last year, the poem seemed to stop deliberately on the image ...

Or those with everything to lose, the kings, Asleep like pistols in red velvet. Moments like these absolve the needs dividing men. That war was meaningful, because they lost their friends. They rise! ...

As well as more than 30 volumes of verse, Logue wrote a number of children’s books, several plays, two screenplays, one pornographic novel, a long-standing column in Private Eye and versions of Homer ...

Left unfinished at his death in 2011, the poet worked on his version of the Illiad for over 40 years. As a new audio book of Christopher Logue reading War Music is released, Shahidha Bari and her ...

PACIFISM was Christopher Logue's creed. He marched to Aldermaston against Britain's bomb in 1958, armed only with sandwiches. Three years later he served time in prison for inciting anti-nuclear ...