On this Veteran's Day in America, it is a good moment to revisit a poem Tom read last year in Westiminster Abbey, of a war poem called El Alamein by John Jarmain. Video of the reading is available here.

El Alamein

There are flowers now, they say, at Alamein;

Yes, flowers in the minefields now.

So those that come to view that vacant scene,

Tomorrow, Tom will be taking part in a live reading of wartime poetry in Westminster Abbey, with fellow actors Dame Harriet Walter and Paul Chahidi. The event is free and will run from 6:30pm to 7:45pm. 

There will also be a panel, chaired by Kavita Puri, that includes Christina Lamb, Chief Foreign Correspondent for The Sunday Times, Louise Sandher-Jones MP, Minister for Veterans and People, and The Very Revd Dr David Hoyle KCVO MBE, Dean of Westminster. The event is being produced by Amelia Richards, and by Josie Rourke, who also directed Tom on stage in As You Like It.