Publications

The Ivor Gurney Society publishes an annual Journal, under the editorship of R.K.R. Thornton, which brings together Gurney related scholarship and reviews. This page gives details and availability of these and other publications.

The Ivor Gurney Society Journal, volume 15 (2009).
Contents:
Anthony Boden Gerald & Joy Finzi: Striving for Ivor Gurney;
Ivor Gurney By Ashleworth [previously unpublished essay];
Pamela Blevins Marion Scott: 'In time to come';
John France Marion M. Scott's compositions - an initial survey;
Michael Pilkington Textual problems in the songs of Ivor Gurney;
Richard Carder From the gloom of Snow to the clarity of The Trumpet: Gurney's settings of Edward Thomas Part II.;
Philip Lancaster The Sea's Redemption: Gurney in Cornwall;
Philip Lancaster & R.K.R. Thornton Iliad and Banter: Seven unpublished letters of IBG;
Kate Kennedy 'But still he died nobly': Gurney's reinterpretation of the pastoral elegy before and during the asylum years;
Philip Lancaster On 'On Earth';
Ivor Gurney On Earth [previously unpublished essay];
Reviews.
Copies available (£5)

The Ivor Gurney Society Journal, volume 14 (2008).
Contents:
Chris O'Reilly 'to more moving called': an existentialist appreciation of Ivor Gurney's poetry;
Pamela Blevins Marion Scott Remembers the Crystal Palace: A Map of the World;
David Goodland Gurney... In and out of the shadows...;
Richard Turbet Byrd and Ivor Gurney;
Roderic Dunnett Ivor Gurney in Buckinghamshire;
R.K.R. Thornton Wilfrid Wilson Gibson;
April Frederick Theatre of the Imagination;
Richard Carder With the Penny Whistle on the Old Road. Gurney's settings of Edward Thomas Part I.;
Rolf Jordan The first Gurney recording?;
R.K.R. Thornton Sketch of Ian Venables;
Kate Kennedy 'Mother' England;
Reviews.
Copies available (£5)

Ivor Gurney: Poet, Composer: The Ivor Gurney Society Journal, volume 13 (2007).
A special issue, edited by Kate Kennedy and Trudi Tate, based on conference papers given at Lucy Cavendish College, Cambridge, 8-9 September 2007.
Contents:
Trudi Tate, Kate Kennedy Editorial;
R.K.R. Thornton What did they expect?;
Sally Minogue 'That Awkward Squad': Ivor Gurney and John Clare in the Line of English Poetry;
Charles Mueller Ivor Gurney and the Poetics of War: An Intensification of the Georgian Aesthetic;
Philip Lancaster Gurney's Duality: Well-Spring, Correlations and Conflicts;
April Frederick The Craft of Beauty: An Interdisciplinary Model of Criticism for the Songs;
Peter Palmer What Makes a Song-Cycle a Cycle?;
Stephen Banfield Gurney the Musician;
Ian Venables The 'Unpublished Songs' of Ivor Gurney: A Composer's Reappraisal;
Kate Kennedy 'Asylum-made Lunatics': Life in Dartford;
James Allum 'Bright;y Coloured and Exceptionally Cheap': The Asylum in the Early 20th Century;
Pamela Blevins Ivor Gurney's Illness: 'The Tide of Darkness';
Mark Facknitz 'Gone out is part of sanity': Reading from Ivor Gurney's Shell Shock;
Reviews.
Copies available (£10)

David Goodland reads the poetry of Ivor Gurney (2007)
Double CD reissue of the 1998 cassette recording
Copies available (£10)

The Ivor Gurney Society Journal, volume 12 (2006).
Contents:
Philip Lancaster Danemen and Drum-taps;
Philip Lancaster Ivor Gurney: Catalogue of Musical Works;
Pamela Blevins Marion Scott and the Society of Women Musicians;
Richard Carder Ivor Gurney's Essay on Joseph Haydn;
Geoffrey Peck Michael Hurd: obituary;
Reviews.
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The Ivor Gurney Society Journal, volume 11 (2005).
Contents:
Pamela Coren Gurney's Solace: Shakespeare, Jonson and Byrd;
Sally Minogue Portrait of the Artist: Ivor Gurney as Modern Maker;
Pamela Blevins Ivor Gurney's Friends: Marion Scott's American Heritage: The Prince Family of Salem, Massachusetts;
Pamela Blevins Obituary: Don Ray;
Winifred Gurney On Having a Genius in the Family;
Bibliography update; Reviews.
Copies available (£5)

The Ivor Gurney Society Journal, volume 10 (2004).
Contents: Charles W. Moore How I found Ivor B. Gurney;
Pamela Blevins Ivor Gurney's Friends: Ethel Voynich - 'E.L.V.' Revolutionary, Novelist, Translator, Composer;
Wendy French Two Poems: 'Barnwood House, Gloucester', 'Obsession';
Stephen Banfield Gurney and Housman;
James Bridges The Georgians and their England;
Trevor Hold Four Poems;
Richard Carder Gurney's Journeys to Graves;
Bibliography Update; Reviews
Copies available (£5)

The Ivor Gurney Society Journal, volume 9 (2003).
Contents:
Jeff Cooper Ivor Gurney and the Abercrombies;
Pamela Coren Gurney's Elizabethans;
James Bridges Georgians and War Poets;
Margi Blunden The Lost Selves - Edmund Blunden's connection to Ivor Gurney;
Ronald Blythe The Great War - and the Little Magazines;
Pamela Blevins One Last Chance: Dr Randolph Davis and Ivor Gurney;
Bibliography update; Reviews
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The Ivor Gurney Society Journal, volume 8 (2002).
Contents:
Ian Venables The Music of Poetry;
Andrew Motion Beaten Down Continually;
David Wojahn 'If You Have to be Sure Don't Write': Poetry and Self-Doubt;
Pamela Blevins Women, War and Words;
Bibliography update; Reviews
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The Ivor Gurney Society Journal, volume 7 (2001).
Contents:
Desmond Graham 'Out of the heart's sickness': Ivor Gurney as a Poet of War;
Stephen Banfield Location and Dislocation in Music of Ivor Gurney;
Pamela Blevins Marion Scott - The Writer;
Liane Curtis Rebecca Clarke and the British Musical Renaissance;
Cathy Martin 'Nearer Walt Whitman's perfect man'? Ivor Gurney's American Poems;
David Kenneth Smith Severn Meadows II: The Actual Catalysts;
Richard Hughes Ivor Gurney's Western Front Songs;
Reviews
Out of print

The Ivor Gurney Society Journal, volume 6 (2000).
Contents: Arnold Rattenbury The Sanity of Ivor Gurney;
Anthony Boden Ivor Gurney: Schizophrenic?;
Pamela Blevins New Perspectives on Ivor Gurney's Mental Illness;
Rodney Hillman Wrestling with Proteus: Edmund Blunden's 'Undertones of War';
George Walter Editing Ivor Gurney's Poetry;
Lynn Parker 'Sorrow of Mydath': Malcolm Davidson;
Kelsey Thornton A New Ivor Gurney Letter to Lascelles Abercrombie;
David Kenneth Smith Severn Meadows I: A Background of Influences;
Reviews
Out of print

The Ivor Gurney Society Journal, volume 5 (1999).
Contents:
Valerie Langfield An Unpublished Letter from Ivor Gurney to Gervase Elwes;
Lynn Parker 'The whole craft and business of bad occasion': a study of 'First Time In' and its manuscripts Transcriptions of 'First Time In';
Richard Carder Song-cycles, Sets and Sappho;
Kelsey Thornton Sketch of Richard Carder;
David Kenneth Smith Singing Gurney: A History of Recording and a Mandate for the Future;
Bibliography update; Reviews
Copies available (£5)

The Ivor Gurney Society Journal, volume 4 (1998).
Contents:
Michael Hurd Gurney's Unpublishable(?) Songs;
John Lucas Edward Thomas, Ivor Gurney and English Socialism;
Pamela Blevins Ivor Gurney, Wilfred Owen and T.Ratcliffe Barnett in Scotland;
Ben Scott The Obverse of the Canonical: Ivor Gurney and the American Civil War;
Ben Scott & George Walter 'Glory crying for poetry': Ivor Gurney's American Poems;
Bibliography update;
Reviews
Copies available (£5)

The Ivor Gurney Society Journal, volume 3 (1997).
Contents:
Wilfrid Mellers Requiescat for Ivor Gurney;
Mark William Brown Music and Lyrics by Ivor Gurney;
Pamela Blevins Annie Drummond's Treasured Memory;
John Jacobs 'That queer hankering afer extinction': Sassoon and 'A Soldier's Declaration';
George Walter 'My True Work Now': an Unpublished Ivor Gurney Letter;
[ed.] A Local Response to Severn & Somme;
Bibliography update; Reviews
Copies available (£5)

The Ivor Gurney Society Journal, volume 2 (1996).
Contents:
Rodney Hillman Discoveries and Celebrations: Ivor Gurney as Great War Poet;
Barbara Garlick At the Marge: Re-reading Ivor Gurney;
Jean Cochrane Night Walker (poem);
Roderic Dunnett The Rightness of Gurney;
Nora Sirbaugh Reflections of Singing Ivor Gurney;
Anthony Boden Marion Scott and 'Contemporary British War-poetry, Music and Patriotism' (1916);
Lynn Parker 'Freedom' and 'Confinement': Two Archive Poems;
Bibliography update; Reviews
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R.K.R. Thornton & George Walter
Towards a Bibliography (1996)

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