A complete set of those journals that are still in print
(currently all volumes, 1995-2014, excepting 2000 and 2001)

Copies available (£45)

Volume 1 (1995) – Copies available (£5)

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• 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

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Volume 2 (1996) – Copies available (£5)

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• 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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Volume 3 (1997) – Copies available (£5)

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• 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• George Walter – ‘My True Work Now’: an Unpublished Ivor Gurney Letter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

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Volume 4 (1998) – Copies available (£5)

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• 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

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Volume 5 (1999) – Copies available (£5)

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• 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
• 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

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Volume 6 (2000) – Out of print)

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• 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

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Volume 7 (2001) – Out of print)

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• 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

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Volume 8 (2002) – Copies available (£5)

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• 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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Volume 9 (2003) – Copies available (£5)

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• 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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Volume 10 (2004) – Copies available (£5)

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• 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

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Volume 11 (2005) – Copies available (£5)

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• 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

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Volume 12 (2006) – Copies available (£5)

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• 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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Volume 13 (2007) – Copies available (£5)

• 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

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Volume 14 (2008) – Copies available (£5)

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• 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

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Volume 15 (2009) – Copies available (£5)

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• 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

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Volume 16 (2010) – Copies available (£5)

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• 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

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Volume 17 (2011) – Copies available (£5)

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• P J Kavanagh – Naming Names
• Roger Deeks – F.W.Harvey, In the Shade of the Hawthorn Hedge
• Pamela Blevins – Ivor Gurney:Missing Links; The Hunt Sisters, Winthrop and Calista Rogers, and Valentine Fane
• Karl O’Neill – The Soldier, the Poet, and the Man from Armagh
• Eleanor Rawling – A Walk is a Poem; A Poem is a Walk; Walking Gloucetsreshire with Ivor Gurney
• Richard Carder – Ivor Gurney’s Piano Trios
• Jeremy Gibson – Framilode (a poem for Ivor Gurney)
• R K R Thornton – Rolf Jordan, a sketch
• Valerie Coffin Price – Landscape Explorations
• Guy Hayward – Singing Gurney: a Personal View
• Reviews

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Volume 18 (2012) – Copies available (£5)

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• Eleanor Rawling – ‘A Blowy Severn Tided Place’; Ivor Gurney,Will Harvey and the Severn Valley
• Rolf Jordan – The Gurneys of Gloucestershire
• R K R Thornton – The Cheesman Archive
• John France – Ivor Gurney and ‘Adlestrop’
• Reviews

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Volume 19 (2013) – Copies available (£5)

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• Rolf Jordan ‘A good man, kind and gentle’: The Reverend Canon A H Cheesman
• Rolf Jordan Appendix: The Reverend Canon A H Cheesman’s Library
• Noel Hayward Dorothy Gurney@ her life abd times in the Australian Mallee
• Philip Lancaster At Gerontius’s Bierside
• Piet Chielens ‘And old Flanders wnet under to long ages of plough thought in my pages’: The Ypres poems of Ivor Gurney
• Philip Lancaster That Tower
• Reviews

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Volume 20 (2014) – Copies available (£5)

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• J Grant Repshire – ‘The Well-Loved Fields of Old’; F W Harvey and Ivor Gurney’s friendship and creative partnership during the First World War as seen through the study of the F W Harvey Collection.
• Eleanor Rawling – ‘The Dead Land Oppressed Me’
• Jacobine van Laar – Gurney and his Singers
• Noel Hayward – Reflections on a Journey through Flanders and Gloucestershire: Discovering Gurney Dreaming
• Sam Sutcliffe – Nobody of Any Importance
• Reviews

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Recordings

David Goodland reads the poetry of Ivor Gurney

A double CD reissue (2007) of the 1998 cassette
recording first issued by the Society.
Copies available (£10)

Ivor Gurney Songs

Piano Music by Ivor Gurney & Howard Ferguson

Sheet Music

We hope to make scores of Gurney’s songs and other works available from this site in due course.