| 1890 - 28 August |
Ivor Bertie Gurney born at 3 Queen Street,
Gloucester, the second child of David Gurney, a tailor, and Florence Lugg.
Alfred Hunter Cheesman, the curate at All Saints’ Church, acts as godfather
at his christening. The family move to 19 Barton Street, house and shop,
shortly after Gurney’s birth. |
| 1894 |
Gurney’s younger brother, Ronald, is born. |
| 1896 |
Gurney starts attending the National School
and All Saints’ Sunday School. The Gurney family purchase their first piano. |
| 1899 |
Gurney joins the choir of All Saints’ Church. |
| 1900 |
Gurney wins a place in Gloucester Cathedral
Choir and starts attending the King’s School, where he learns the organ. His
younger sister, Dorothy, is born. |
| 1904 |
Gurney sings with Madame Albani at the Three
Choirs Festival. He begins to write music. |
| 1905 |
Gurney begins his close association with Canon
Cheesman and Margaret and Emily Hunt, all of whom encourage his creative talents. |
| 1906 |
Gurney leave the Cathedral Choir and the King’s
School to become an articled pupil of Dr. Herbert Brewer, the organist of
Gloucester Cathedral. He makes friends with Herbert Howells, a fellow pupil
of Brewer’s, F. W. Harvey and John Wilton Haines. He works temporarily as
an organist at Whitminster, Hempsted and the Mariners’ Church in Gloucester’s
Docklands. |
| 1907 |
Gurney passes the matriculation examination
for Durham University. |
| 1910 |
Gurney and Howells attend the première
of Vaughan Williams’ Fantasia on a Theme by Thomas Tallis in Gloucester. |
| 1911 |
Gurney wins an open scholarship for composition
at the Royal College of Music of £40 per annum, with Cheesman providing
another £40. He takes digs in Fulham. He is taught composition by Charles
Villiers Stanford and makes friends with Marion M. Scott and Ethel Voynich. |
| 1912 |
Howells wins a composition scholarship to
the Royal College of Music. He and Gurney make friends with another new student,
Arthur Benjamin. |
| 1913 |
Gurney begins to write poetry seriously. |
| May |
He is diagnosed as suffering from dyspepsia
and ‘neurasthenia’ by Dr. Harper and returns to Gloucestershire to recuperate. |
| Winter |
He writes his settings of five Elizabethan
lyrics — what he calls ‘The Elizas’. |
| 1914 - August |
Gurney volunteers for military service but
is rejected because of his defective eyesight. |
| October |
He takes the post of organist at Christ Church,
High Wycombe, where he makes the acquaintance of the Chapman family. He falls
in love with Kitty Chapman and asks for permission to marry her. It is refused. |
| 1915 - 9 February |
Gurney volunteers again and is drafted into
the 5th Gloucester Reserve Battalion, the ‘2/5th Glosters’, as Private no.
3895. He spends the rest of the year in training at Northampton, Chelmsford
and Epping. |
| August |
He begins to send Marion Scott his poems and
rediscovers the poetry of Walt Whitman, writing to Ethel Voynich that ‘he
has taken me like a flood’. |
| December |
‘Afterwards’ and ‘To the Poet Before Battle’
are published in The Royal College of Music Magazine. |
| 1916 - February |
The 2/5th Glosters move to Tidworth and then
on to Park House Camp on Salisbury Plain. |
| 25 May |
They arrive in Le Havre and are then sent
into trenches at Riez Bailleul. |
| 8 June |
They move on to Laventie. |
| 15 June |
They relieve the 2nd/1st Bucks in the Fauquissart-Laventie
sector. They are billeted at La Gorgue. |
| July |
‘To Certain Comrades’ is published in TheRoyal
College of Music Magazine. |
| 19 July |
They are placed in reserve for the attack
on Aubers Ridge and ‘on Rest’ at Richebourg, Neuve-Chappelle, Robecq and
Gonnehem. |
| 28 August |
Gurney is admitted to a Casualty Clearing
Station to have his teeth treated. |
| 27 October |
The Battalion moves south to Albert and the
Somme sector. |
| December |
Gurney is sent to a Rest Station with ‘a cold
in the stomach’ and then takes a temporary job with the water carts in the
Sanitary Section at 61st Divisional Headquarters. |
| 1917 - 7 January |
Gurney returns to normal duties. |
| 15 February |
The 2/5th Glosters are moved to the Ablaincourt
sector. |
| 18 March |
They follow the German withdrawal to Caulaincourt
and then on to Vermand. |
| 7 April |
Gurney is wounded on Good Friday in the upper
arm and sent to hospital at the 55th Infantry Base Depot, Rouen. He is given
a new Army Number, 241281. |
| 18 May |
He is back with the Battalion, which moves
to the Arras Front. |
| 23 June |
The 2/5th Glosters are ‘on Rest’ at Buire-au-Bois.
Gurney becomes his platoon’s crack shot. |
| July |
‘Song of Pain and Beauty’ is published in
TheRoyal College of Music Magazine. |
| 14 July |
Sidgwick & Jackson agree to publish Gurney’s
poems. |
| 15 July |
Gurney transfers to the 184 Machine Gun Company
at Vaux. |
| 31 July |
The Battalion moves on to Buysscheure in reserve
for the battle of Passchendaele. |
| 10 September |
Gurney is gassed at St. Julien. |
| 25 September |
He arrives at the Edinburgh War Hospital,
Bangour, where he meets and falls in love with Annie Nelson Drummond, a V.A.D.
nurse. Their relationship does not last. |
| November |
‘Strange Service’, ‘Afterwards’, ‘To Certain
Comrades’ and ‘To the Poet Before Battle’ are published in E. B. Osborn’s
anthology The Muse in Arms. Severn & Somme is published.
Gurney is transferred to Seaton Delaval for a signalling course. |
| 1918 - 12 February |
Gurney is granted leave to visit his sick
father. |
| 25 February |
He is examined for the effects of gas and
admitted to Newcastle General Hospital. |
| March |
He is moved to Brancepeth Castle, a convalescent
depot. |
| 28 March |
He writes to Marion Scott telling her that
he has spoken to ‘the spirit of Beethoven’, clearly a sign of some kind of
nervous breakdown. |
| April |
‘Ypres’ and ‘After Music’ are published in
The Royal College of Music Magazine. |
| 22 April |
He returns to Newcastle General Hospital and
is then moved on to Seaton Delaval. |
| 8 May |
He is sent to Lord Derby’s War Hospital, Warrington.
Hospitals in the area are using ‘Faradisation’ — controlled electrical charges
— as a treatment for shell-shock, though there is no evidence of its use
on Gurney. |
| June |
‘The Immortal Hour’ is published in TheWestminster
Gazette. |
| 19 June |
He sends a suicide note to Marion Scott and
tells his superiors that he hears voices and wishes to be sent to an asylum. |
| 4 July |
He is sent to Middlesex War Hospital in St.
Albans. |
| 4 October |
He is discharged from the army with a pension
of 12 shillings a week. He is not granted a full pension because his condition
is ‘aggravated but not caused by’ the war. He returns to 19 Barton Street,
Gloucester. |
| October |
He is working in a munitions factory and worrying
his friends and family with his erratic behaviour. He makes several attempts
to go to sea. The Chapman family offer to adopt him, but his own family do
not allow this. |
| 11 November |
He finishes work at the munitions factory. |
| 7 December |
‘The Battalion is Now “On Rest”’ is published
in The Spectator. |
| Christmas |
He goes to stay with Ethel Voynich in Cornwall. |
| 1919 - January |
Gurney returns to the Royal College of Music,
where Ralph Vaughan Williams is his composition teacher. He moves into digs
in West Kensington. Severn & Somme is reprinted. |
| 11 January |
‘In a Ward’ is published in The Spectator.
‘The Day of Victory’ is published in The Gloucester Journal. |
| 22 February |
‘The Volunteer’ is published in The Spectator. |
| 25 February |
Gurney returns to 19 Barton Street to correct
the proofs of War’s Embers, his second volume for Sidgwick &
Jackson. He tells Marion Scott: ‘Book three you see is in the making!’ |
| 3 March |
Margaret Hunt dies. |
| 22 April |
He is working at Dryhill Farm, Shurdington. |
| May |
He is living in St. John’s Wood, London.
War’s Embers is published. |
| 10 May |
His father, David Gurney, dies. |
| August |
He submits poems to The Century, TheAthenæum,
Harper’s Magazine, The New Witness and TheSpectator,
none of which are accepted. He goes on a walking tour of the Black Mountains
with John Haines and moves to High Wycombe on his return. |
| September |
He takes a post as organist at Christ Church,
High Wycombe. |
| October |
He is suffering from ‘nerves and an inability
to think or write at all clearly’, yet is now moving in London literary circles. |
| 8 November |
He and F. W. Harvey visit John Masefield at
Boar’s Hill, Oxford. |
| 1920 - late February |
Gurney walks from High Wycombe to Dryhill
Farm via Oxford. |
| March |
‘The Twa Corbies’ is published in Music
and Letters. |
| May |
He tries to set up home in a cottage at Cold
Slad, Dryhill. |
| July |
‘The Hooligan’ and ‘April 20th 1919’ are published
in The Royal College of Music Magazine. Stainer & Bell publish
‘Captain Stratton’s Fancy’. Winthrop Rogers publish ‘Orpheus’, ‘Sleep’,
‘Tears’, ‘Spring’ and ‘Under the Greenwood Tree’ — ‘The Elizas’. Boosey
& Co. publish ‘Carol of the Skiddaw Yowes’. |
| October |
Gurney is living in lodgings in Earls Court,
London. ‘Equal Mistress’ and ‘The Crocus Ring’ are published in Music and
Letters. |
| 6 November |
He receives a Government Grant of £120
a year, backdated to 25 September. He meets Edmund Blunden and Wilfrid Gibson
for the first time. |
| 18 December |
‘Desire in Spring’ is published in The
Chapbook. |
| 1921 |
Chappell & Co. publish ‘West Sussex Drinking
Song’. Boosey & Co. publish ‘I will go with my father a-ploughing’. |
| 12 February |
‘Fine Rain’ is published in The Nation. |
| March |
Boosey & Co. publish ‘Since thou,
O fondest and truest’. |
| April |
Gurney is living with his aunt at 1 Westfield
Terrace, Longford, Gloucester. He tries unsuccessfully to get his poems included
in Edward Marsh’s anthology Georgian Poetry 1920-1922 and looks for
and eventually finds work on a farm. |
| May |
‘Song of Pain and Beauty’ and ‘To the Poet
Before Battle’ are reprinted in J. C. Squire’s anthology, Selections from
Modern Poets. |
| June-July |
He is living at the Five Alls, Stokenchurch,
near High Wycombe. |
| Late July |
He formally leaves the Royal College of Music
and returns to his aunt’s house in Longford. |
| August |
He works in a cold storage depot in Southwark
for a fortnight and then returns to Longford, finding employment on a farm. |
| 20 August |
‘Western Sky’ is published in The Nation
and Athenæum. |
| September |
Winthrop Rogers publish ‘The Bonnie Earl of
Murray’ and ‘The County Mayo’. Gurney is probably using the black and
green manuscript notebooks by this time. |
| October |
Winthrop Rogers publish the Five Preludes
for Piano. |
| December |
He obtains a post playing the piano at a cinema
in Bude but is retained for only a week. |
| 1922 |
Stainer & Bell publish ‘Edward, Edward’.
Boosey & Co. publish ‘Come, O come my Life’s delight’. |
| January |
Gurney is living in Walham Green, London,
and probably using the pink marbled manuscript notebook by this time. |
| 7 January |
‘This City’ is published in The Gloucester
Journal. |
| Mid January |
Gurney moves to Plumstead, London, and finds
a job playing the piano in a cinema there. He is retained only for a fortnight. |
| February |
He returns to his aunt’s house in Longford
and finds work on a farm. |
| April |
Dorothy Gurney types out selections from his
poems out for him. |
| 15 April |
‘On a Two Hundredth Birthday’ is published
in The Gloucester Journal. |
| May |
He looks for a job in the Civil Service and
submits a volume of ‘80 poems or so’ to Sidgwick & Jackson, who return
it and advise him to reduce and revise its contents. |
| 10 June |
‘Tewkesbury’ is published in The Gloucester
Journal. Gurney resubmits his poems to Sidgwick & Jackson but they
are rejected again. |
| July |
His essay, ‘The Springs of Music’, is published
in The Musical Quarterly. He is now writing ‘War poems. (rather
bad.)’. |
| 3 July |
He begins work at the Gloucester Tax Office
but loses his post after twelve weeks. |
| September |
He moves in uninvited with his brother Ronald
and his wife at 52 Worcester Street, Gloucester. His behaviour becomes very
disturbed and he makes a number of suicide attempts. |
| Late September |
He goes to a Convalescent Home near Bristol
but his condition does not improve. |
| 28 September |
He is certified insane by Dr. Soutar and Dr.
Terry and is admitted to Barnwood House, a private asylum near Gloucester. |
| October |
‘Encounters’ and ‘The March Past’ are published
in The London Mercury. |
| 21 October |
Gurney escapes but is recaptured after a few
hours. |
| 8 November |
He escapes again but is recaptured at a police
station. |
| 21 December |
He is transferred to the City of London Mental
Hospital at Dartford — known as ‘Stone House’ or ‘Dr. Steen’s’ — and comes
under the care of Dr. Robinson, the Second Assistant Medical Officer. |
| 1923 |
Stainer & Bell publish the song cycle
Ludlow and Teme as part of the Carnegie Collection of
British Music and the Five Western Watercolours. |
| January |
‘Sights’ is published in The London
Mercury. |
| 6 January |
Gurney escapes whilst walking in the hospital
grounds and travels to London. He visits J. C. Squire and Ralph Vaughan Williams,
who informs the authorities. He is recaptured and returned to Dartford via
Hounslow Infirmary. |
| February |
His physical condition improves but his mental
condition remains the same. |
| 31 March |
‘The Road’ is published in The Spectator. |
| May |
‘Advice’ is published in The London Mercury.
Gurney is correcting the typescripts of the green and pink marbled manuscript
notebooks and planning ‘a thick book of verse’. |
| June |
Ronald Gurney sends his brother’s manuscripts
to Marion Scott. John Haines also begins to gather material. |
| August |
Gurney’s condition is treated with ‘Malarial
injections’, which have no effect on his mental state. |
| Christmas |
He entertains his fellow-patients with his
piano-playing during the festivities. |
| 1924 - January |
‘Thoughts of New England’, ‘New Year’s Eve’,
‘Old Tale’, ‘The Cloud’, ‘Smudgy Dawn’, ‘Tobacco’ and ‘Brimscombe’ are published
in The London Mercury. Gurney receives seven visits from Dr.
Cyriax, an osteopath, for treatment for pains in his neck and head. |
| March |
He refuses to get up from his bed in the veranda.
His mental condition worsens. |
| July |
His contribution to ‘Charles Villiers Stanford.
By Some of His Pupils’ is published in Music and Letters. Miss Mollie
Hart is paid £1.5s for typing out the first version of Rewards of
Wonder. |
| August |
He sends out a number of appeals listing seven
new books of poems and who they have apparently been sent to. Roman gone
East has gone to Arthur Benjamin, Fatigues and Magnificences has
been sent to Basil Cridlan and Sir George Macmillan has apparently received
a copy of Rewards of Wonder. |
| October |
He corrects Rewards of Wonder to produce
the second version of it. |
| November |
The song Lights Out is published in
TheLondon Mercury. ‘Thoughts of New England’, ‘Smudgy
Dawn’ and ‘Dawn’ are reprinted in J. C. Squire’s anthology, Second Selections
from Modern Poets. Gurney produces a number of revisions of these poems. |
| December |
He is writing new poems and song settings.
He receives ‘French books’. |
| 1925 |
‘Sleep’ is reprinted in A Miscellany of
Artistic Songs. ‘I will go with my father a-ploughing’ and ‘Carol of
the Skiddaw Yowes’ are reprinted in 50 Modern English Songs. |
| January |
Gurney produces a prolific amount of songs
and poems, including a collection for Annie Nelson Drummond called ToHawthornden. |
| February |
He writes The book of Five makings
and ‘corrects’ the green manuscript notebook. He also writes four song settings. |
| March |
He writes seven song settings, including three
of French poems, and many single poems. He also produces six new collections
of verse — Memories of Honour, Poems to the States, Six Poems
of the North American States, Poems in Praise of Poets, The
Book of Lives and Accusations and Poems of Gloucesters, Gloucester
and of Virginia. Dr. Robinson is replaced by Dr. Randolph Davis,
a Canadian with whom Gurney forms a rapport. Gerald Finzi approaches Marion
Scott about the publication of Gurney’s songs. |
| 27 March |
Arthur Benjamin performs two of Gurney’s songs
at a concert at Stone House. |
| April |
‘Schubert’ is published in Music and Letters.He
writes many single poems and four song settings, including one to his own
words called ‘Song of the Canadian Soldiers’. |
| May |
Dr. Davis is replaced by Dr. Anderson. |
| June |
Gurney writes Pictures and Memories
and many single poems. He also produces seven songs. |
| July |
Stainer & Bell publish ‘Sowing’. Gurney
writes five songs and one choral setting. |
| August |
His condition shows signs of slight improvement. |
| September |
He writes eight song settings and some instrumental
music. |
| November |
Gurney is using the blue ‘Marspen’ exercise
books. Marion Scott and Ralph Vaughan Williams make plans to transfer Gurney
to Dr. Davis’ care as a private patient. |
| December |
The plan of handing Gurney over to Dr. Davis
is suddenly abandoned. |
| 1926 |
Stainer & Bell publish the song cycle
Lights Out. |
| January |
Dr. Hart, a Harley Street psychiatrist, is
consulted about Gurney’s condition. |
| April |
The song cycle The Western Playland (and
of sorrow) is published as part of the Carnegie Collection of British
Music. Gurney completes Best poems, using material from the ‘Marspen’
notebooks. He is taken by Marion Scott to the Old Vic and later writes a
play called The Tewkesbury Trial. |
| September |
He produces a prolific amount of new poems
but his mental condition worsens. |
| November |
His mental condition further deteriorates
and he becomes agitated, stating that he ‘should be allowed to die’. He refuses
to be examined and asserts that an inspection of the floor and ceiling to
find the machines torturing him would be more effective. |
| December |
He becomes severely deluded and believes himself
to be Shakespeare, Hilaire Belloc, Beethoven and Haydn, amongst others. |
| 1927 |
Stainer & Bell publish ‘Star Talk’. |
| February |
Gurney is treated by Mr. Lidderdale, a Christian
Science practitioner, on the advice of Adeline Vaughan Williams. |
| March |
He is provided with a table to work at in
the hospital gardens. |
| April |
‘Beethoven I wronged thee undernoting thus’
is published in Music and Letters. He is mentally ‘very confused’ and
his treatment with Mr. Lidderdale is terminated. |
| May |
He revises and ‘corrects’ poems by Walt Whitman. |
| June |
He becomes hostile to hospital staff and fellow-patients
and his physical condition deteriorates. |
| 1928 |
Oxford University Press publish ‘Walking Song’,
‘Desire in Spring’, ‘The Fields are Full’, ‘Severn Meadows’ and ‘The Twa Corbies’.
‘To the Poet Before Battle’ is reprinted in Wallace Briggs’ anthology Great
Poems of the English Language. ‘Song of Pain and Beauty’ is reprinted
in H. R. L. Sheppard and H. P. Marshall’s anthology Fiery Grains. |
| February |
Victor Gollancz expresses interest in publishing
a collection of Gurney’s poems. Marion Scott assembles a selection and copies
them out. Gurney’s eyes are examined by an oculist. |
| July |
Miss Mollie Hart is paid 10s.9d for typing
Marion Scott’s selection of Gurney’s poems. |
| 1929 - 4 March |
Gurney is taken to Gravesend and Rochester
by Marion Scott. He wishes to buy a ‘Phillips 1/- Atlas’ but is unable to
find one and Miss Scott buys him an edition of Shelley instead. |
| August |
He claims to be the author of Shakespeare’s
plays. |
| 28 December |
He visits the Old Vic with Marion Scott to
see an afternoon performance of A Midsummer Night’s Dream. |
| 1930 |
‘Song of Pain and Beauty’ and ‘To the Poet
Before Battle’ are reprinted in Frederick Brereton’s An Anthology of War
Poems. ‘Song of Pain and Beauty’ is also reprinted in W. H. Davies’ anthology
Jewels of Song. |
| 1931 |
‘Tobacco’ and ‘Encounters’ are reprinted in
The Mercury Book of Verse. |
| June |
Gurney is ‘very deluded & much persecuted
by wireless speakers’. He hoards rubbish and becomes obsessed with ‘underlining
words in every book which he picks up’. However, he ‘continues to write poetry’. |
| 1932 |
Gurney receives a number of visits from Helen
Thomas, the widow of Edward Thomas. |
| November |
‘Tobacco’ and ‘Encounters’ are reprinted in
J. C. Squire’s anthology Younger Poets of Today. |
| 1933 - May |
Gurney’s physical and mental condition deteriorate
further. He becomes ‘very abusive and forceful’. |
| December |
‘Darkness has Cheating Swiftness’, ‘Old Thought’,
‘Old Dreams’ and ‘Towards Lillers’ are published in The London Mercury. |
| 1934 - January |
‘The Soaking’, ‘When March Blows’, ‘Robecq
Again’, ‘Tea Table’, ‘Early Spring Dawn’ and ‘When the Body Might Free’ are
published in TheLondon Mercury. |
| May |
‘Defiance’, ‘Late May’ and ‘The High Hills
have a Bitterness’ are published in The London Mercury. |
| August |
‘Stars Sliding’, ‘Drachms and Scruples’ and
‘Possessions’ are published in The London Mercury. Gurney becomes
apathetic and his memory begins to fail. He now believes that ‘Collins the
International’ wrote Shakespeare’s plays. |
| 1935 |
Gerald Finzi and Marion Scott make plans for
the publication of a symposium on Gurney’s work in Music and Letters.
The possibility of publishing his songs is also discussed. |
| May |
Gurney receives treatment for his lumbago. |
| 1937 - February |
Gerald Finzi and Marion Scott proceed with
their plans for the publication of Gurney’s work. The Music and Letters
symposium begins to take shape. |
| April |
Walter de la Mare agrees to write an introduction
for an edition of Gurney’s poems. |
| June |
Gerald Finzi types out poems of Gurney’s which
have appeared in periodicals. |
| July |
Gurney becomes ‘much weaker’ physically and
mentally. |
| 23 November |
He is diagnosed as suffering from pleurisy
and tuberculosis. Marion Scott is urged to visit because he is in ‘very poor
health’. |
| 26 November |
Proofs of the Music and Letters articles
are sent to him, but he is too ill to open them. |
| 26 December |
Gurney dies from bilateral pulmonary tuberculosis
at 3.45 am Sunday morning. |
| 31 December |
He is buried at Twigworth, Gloucestershire.
Canon Cheesman takes the service. |
| 1938 - January |
The symposium on Gurney’s life and work is
published in Music and Letters. Ivor Gurney: Twenty Songs is
published by Oxford University Press in two volumes. |
| July |
The BBC broadcast four recitals of Gurney’s
work. |
| 1939 |
Plans for an edition of Gurney’s unpublished
poems are revived. John Haines agrees to make a selection and to have it copied. |
| 1940 |
Two instrumental pieces by Gurney, The
Apple Orchard and Scherzo, are published by Oxford University
Press. |
| 1941 |
Joyce Finzi, the wife of Gerald Finzi, discovers
that John Haines has been too traumatised by the war to work on Gurney’s manuscripts.
She offers to type some material herself, but Marion Scott suggests that
Miss E. Henry Bird, now her regular typist, should do it instead. |
| 1943 |
Responding to Marion Scott’s inactivity, Ralph
Vaughan Williams has Gurney’s poems copied by ‘a very good typist in Dorking’. |
| 1948 |
Edmund Blunden undertakes the production of
a selection of Gurney’s unpublished poems, using the Vaughan Williams typescripts
as his primary source. |
| 1952 |
Ivor Gurney: A Third Volume of Ten Songs
is published by Oxford University Press. |
| 1953 |
Marion Scott dies. |
| 1954 |
Edmund Blunden’s Poems by Ivor Gurney:
Principally selected from unpublished manuscripts is published by Hutchinson. |
| 1956 |
Gerald Finzi dies. |
| 1959 |
Ivor Gurney: A Fourth Volume of Ten Songs
is published by Oxford University Press. Ronald Gurney places
his collection of his brother’s manuscripts on permanent loan to Gloucester
Library. |
| 1973 |
Leonard Clark’s Poems of Ivor Gurney 1890-1937
is published by Chatto & Windus. |
| 1978 |
Michael Hurd’s The Ordeal of Ivor Gurney
is published by Oxford University Press. |
| 1982 |
P. J. Kavanagh’s Collected Poems of Ivor
Gurney is published by Oxford University Press. |
| 1987 |
Severn & Somme and War’s
Embers are republished as a single volume by MidNAG & Carcanet. |
| 1991 |
Ivor Gurney: Collected Letters is published
by MidNAG & Carcanet. |
| 1995 |
Ivor Gurney: Best Poems and The Book of
Five Makings is published by MidNAG & Carcanet. |
| February |
First issue of the Ivor Gurney Newsletter. |
| August |
First issue of the Ivor Gurney Society Journal. |
| 22 August |
Founding of the Ivor Gurney Society, during the Gloucester Three Choirs
Festival. |
| 1997 |
Ivor Gurney: 80 Poems or So is published by MidNAG & Carcanet. |
| 1999 - 23 September |
Establishment of the Ivor Gurney Website Ivor.Gurney.net. |
| 2000 - March |
Rewards of Wonder is published by MidNAG & Carcanet. |
