DYMOCK Poets Rupert Brooke and Edward Thomas are among the Great War Poets who are commemorated at an exhibition in London later this year.

Anthem For Doomed Youth: Twelve Soldier Poets of the First World War opens on October 30 at the Imperial War Museum and runs until April 27 next year.

The largest exhibition of its kind ever mounted, it also illustrates the life and work of Edmund Blunden, Robert Graves, Julian Grenfell, David Jones, Francis Ledwidge, Wilfred Owen, Isaac Rosenberg, Siegfried Sassoon and Charles Sorley.

Among the exhibits will be an olive branch from Rupert Brooke's grave on Skyros and a handwritten draft of his sonnet The Soldier, on military headed notepaper.

Edward Thomas's diary, creased by the blast of the shell that killed him, will also be on show, alongside his pocket watch, which stopped at the moment of his death.

Another local poet Ivor Gurney, who was also a composer, will be represented by his piano, a lock of his hair, his original gravestone from Twigworth, near Gloucester, and a manuscript of To His Love.

Notebooks, letters, manuscripts, items of uniform and other memorabilia are also included in the exhibition.

An accompanying book by John Stallworthy, also entitled Anthem For Doomed Youth, is published this month by Constable and Stallworthy.