Ivor Gurney, known first as a composer, also wrote poetry. He lead a troubled life suffering two nervous breakdowns in the First World War. He became suicidal, and in 1922 was admitted to an insane ...

Anyone who reads Ivor Gurney’s poems will recognise how deeply they are rooted in landscape. Gurney’s passion for the lush Severn meadows and the steep Cotswold hills shines through his work. So it is ...

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Admirers of composer Ivor Gurney, who died in 1937, are holding a concert to raise money for a suitable memorial. This is absolutely fitting, says Rupert Christiansen. Thomas Denny's design for the ...

In December 1922, the young poet and composer Ivor Gurney (1890–1937) was folded into a hired car by two attendants and driven from his home in Gloucestershire, a rural county northwest of London, to ...

When the 90th anniversary of the Battle of the Somme is commemorated this year, there will be the chance to remember those who experienced the carnage. The poet and composer Ivor Gurney was one such ...