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The Ivor Gurney Society Journal

Copies of the Ivor Gurney Society Journal are available here. Edited by Kelsey Thornton, the Gurnal (as it is affectionately known) is a forum for scholarly discussion of aspects of Gurney's life and work, as well as related articles.

Copies can be bought individually, or a set of all volumes still in print can be ordered as a whole.

Latest edition:

Volume 16 (2010)

Copies available (£5)

Show contents...

Eleanor Rawling - Putting Gurney in His Place; a Geographical Perspective
John France - Ivor Gurney & 'On Wenlock Edge'
Pamela Blevins - The Marginalization of Women in the First World War & a Book That Should Be Required Reading for Students of the War
Philip Lancaster - War and Betrayal: Two Fables by Ivor Gurney
Ivor Gurney - Fable. by Leo Count Tolstoi [previously unpublished prose tale]
Ivor Gurney - Roman [previously unpublished poem]
R.K.R. Thornton - Diary of a Trip to Belgium
Ian Venables - 'To make musical history for England and out of Gloster stuff' - The orchestral music of Ivor Gurney
Roderic Dunnett - Top Class Musicianship: a review of the 2010 Three Choirs Festival
Philip Lancaster - A Note on Accessing the Gurney Archive
Philip Lancaster - Reconstructing Gurney in the Archive
Ian Venables - The Ivor Gurney Trust
Reviews
Index to vols. 1-15

Complete Set:

A complete set of those journals that are still in print
(currently all volumes, 1995-2010, excepting 2000 and 2001)

Copies available (£45)

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Back-issues:

	Volume 1 (1995) Copies available (£5) Show contents... Peter Longshaw - Severn & Somme: Songs and Sonnets Joy King - A Tale of Heroic Courage: Some Tensions in the Concept of Masculinity in Ivor Gurney's Poetry Roderic Dunnett - Patterns of Bright Green: Gurney the Musician Julian Philips - Gurney as Lyricist: The making of 'Dread of Starry Majesties' Penny Ely - 'A Combination of Don Quixote and D'Artagnon': John Haines on Gurney R.K.R. Thornton - New Howells-Gurney Papers Reviews
	Volume 2 (1996) Copies available (£5) Show 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
	Volume 3 (1997) Copies available (£5) Show 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
	Volume 4 (1998) Copies available (£5) Show 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
	Volume 5 (1999) Copies available (£5) Show 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
	Volume 6 (2000) Out of print Show 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
	Volume 7 (2001) Out of print Show 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
	Volume 8 (2002) Copies available (£5) Show 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
	Volume 9 (2003) Copies available (£5) Show 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
	Volume 10 (2004) Copies available (£5) Show 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
	Volume 11 (2005) Copies available (£5) Show 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
	Volume 12 (2006) Copies available (£5) Show 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
	Volume 13 (2007) Copies available (£10) Show contents... A special issue, edited by Kate Kennedy and Trudi Tate, based on conference papers given at Lucy Cavendish College, Cambridge, 8-9 September 2007. 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
	Volume 14 (2008) Copies available (£5) Show 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
	Volume 15 (2009) Copies available (£5) Show 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