Overview
It Is Easy To Be Dead tells the story of war poet Charles Sorley's brief
life through his work and music and songs from some of the greatest
composers of the period. Born in Aberdeen, Sorley was studying in
Germany when the First World War broke out and was briefly imprisoned as
an enemy alien. He was one of the first to join the army in 1914.
Killed in action a year later at the age of 20, his poems are among the
most ambivalent, profound and moving war poetry ever written.