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Ivor Gurney is perhaps best known as a musician and First World War
poet but he also wrote vividly and prolifically about his native
Gloucestershire, finding inspiration and joy in walking the
countryside and expressing its different moods. This book explores
the particular Gloucestershire landscapes - the Cotswolds, the
Severn Meadows and the city of Gloucester - that stimulated his
creativity in poetry and music, but the relationship went much
deeper. Gurney became increasingly dependent on 'being-in' these
Gloucestershire places as the source of his identity and
well-being. Confined to a mental asylum in Kent for the last
fifteen years of his life, he still drew on his memories of
Gloucestershire, but it was a poetry of absence and loss. This book
contains a wealth of Gurney's poetry with many pieces being
published here for the first time. Other features aim to clarify
the poetry/place dialogue and include an illustrated colour map, in
which Ivor Gurney's Gloucestershire has been interpreted by a map
artist working closely with the author; a layered model of Gurney's
relationship with these places; and four walking routes, with
accompanying commentaries and poetry extracts. The author is a
geographer, literary researcher and walker. Having been born and
brought up in Gloucestershire, she has a passion for its landscapes
and places.
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