Dame Carol Ann Duffy presented with award in Shrewsbury
The current Poet Laureate was in Shropshire to pick up an award named in honour of one of the county's most famous sons.
Dame Carol Ann Duffy was presented with the Wilfred Owen Association Poetry Award 2016 at The Gateway Education and Arts Centre in Chester Street, Shrewsbury.
She was the unanimous choice of the association's committee to receive the award, previously won by the likes of Andrew Motion, and she was presented with it by the poet's nephew Peter Owen.
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Dame Carol Ann then gave an hour-long reading from her acclaimed collections Remembering the Last Post, The Christmas Truce, and other works on Saturday afternoon.
Fiona MacDonald, of the Wilfred Owen Association, said: "It was an excellent day and we had around 50 people turn out to see the Poet Laureate.
"We are really pleased to see the ethos of Wilfred Owen being appreciated by so many people."
Dame Carol is a Scottish poet and playwright and is professor of contemporary poetry at Manchester Metropolitan University and was appointed Britain's Poet Laureate in May 2009.
Her writing explores both everyday experience and inner worlds, in deceptive, profoundly resonant poems.
Wilfred Owen was born in Oswestry and later moved to Shrewsbury.
Regarded by many as the greatest poet of World War One, he was killed in action on November 4, 1918, just one week before the Armistice was signed.
His mother received a telegram reporting his death as the bells rung out to celebrate the end of the war.
The Wilfred Owen Association was formed in 1989 to commemorate his life and work. Since its formation the association has established permanent public memorials in Shrewsbury and Oswestry.
