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Severn and Somme

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The English poet Ivor Gurney wrote these poems while serving in the First World War. In them he contrasts the wartime desolation of the area around the River Somme in northern France with the natural beauty of the valley of the River Severn in his native Gloucestershire. - Summary by Alan Mapstone (1 hr 3 min)

Chapters

Preface

4:11

Read by Alan Mapstone

To Certain Comrades

1:54

Read by Alan Mapstone

The Fire Kindled

1:29

Read by Alan Mapstone

To the Poet Before Battle

1:18

Read by Alan Mapstone

Maisemore

1:36

Read by Alan Mapstone

Afterwards

1:07

Read by Joanna Michal Hoyt

Carol

1:18

Read by Larry Wilson

Strange Service

1:47

Read by Alan Mapstone

Serenity

0:55

Read by Stefan Von Blon

The Signaller's Vision

1:17

Read by mleigh

The Mother

0:46

Read by James K. White

To England - A Note

1:15

Read by James K. White

Bach and the Sentry

0:56

Read by James K. White

Letters

1:00

Read by James K. White

Strafe

0:53

Read by mleigh

Acquiescence

1:09

Read by Larry Wilson

The Strong Thing

0:57

Read by Alan Mapstone

Scots

1:23

Read by mleigh

To an Unknown Lady

1:34

Read by Stefan Von Blon

Song and Pain

0:56

Read by James K. White

Purple and Black

1:17

Read by James K. White

West Country

1:12

Read by Alan Mapstone

Firelight

1:11

Read by Larry Wilson

The Estaminet

2:13

Read by Alan Mapstone

Song

0:44

Read by mleigh

Ballad of the Three Spectres

1:26

Read by Alan Mapstone

Communion

0:53

Read by Larry Wilson

Time and the Soldier

1:08

Read by Alan Mapstone

Influences

1:16

Read by Stefan Von Blon

After-Glow

1:14

Read by Larry Wilson

Hail and Farewell

1:27

Read by mleigh

Praise

0:30

Read by Larry Wilson

Winter Beauty

1:58

Read by Alan Mapstone

Song of Pain and Beauty

1:09

Read by Yogi McCaw

Spring. Rouen, May 1917

5:59

Read by Alan Mapstone

June-To-Come

1:03

Read by Larry Wilson

"Hark, Hark, The Lark"

0:41

Read by Larry Wilson

Song at Morning

1:46

Read by Larry Wilson

Trees

1:05

Read by Joanna Michal Hoyt

Requiem

1:21

Read by Alan Mapstone

Sonnets 1917 : 1. For England

1:25

Read by Alan Mapstone

2. Pain

1:19

Read by BenDowling

3. Servitude

1:08

Read by BenDowling

4. Home-Sickness

1:19

Read by BenDowling

5. England the Mother

1:24

Read by Alan Mapstone