The Wilfred Owen Festival 2025 is dedicated to honouring the life and works of the renowned poet and soldier in the town of his birth. It follows on from the festival in 2018 when the worldwide Centenary Commemorations of the end of World War One and of his death just days before the cessation of hostilities in November 1918 took place.
The catalyst for this years festival was brought about by a magnanimous gesture from the maker of the Wilfred Owen Violin and other instruments to donate these to the town of Owen’s birth. In 2014 and as a poignant commemoration of the outbreak of the First World War in August 1914, Edinburgh based instrument maker, Steve Burnett crafted a violin that resonates – not just with an exceptional warmth and depth of tone but with literary and historical associations that reach back over the century. Called the “Wilfred Owen Violin” and like Wilfred Owen’s poem, ‘Anthem for Domed Youth’, this instrument is Steve’s musical lament for all those who died in the Great War.
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Wilfred Owen Statue by Tim Turner – Cae Glas Park, Oswestry.