Rebel Verses: Free Audiobook and Listening Guide

Rebel Verses, credited to Bernard Gilbert, is available as a LibriVox volunteer audiobook. This guide identifies the recording, its source summary and its audio tracks.

About the work

The LibriVox catalogue summary, preserved with the recording, reads:

LibriVox recording of Rebel Verses by Bernard Gilbert. Read in English by LibriVox Volunteers. Mr. Bernard Gilbert is one of the discoveries of the War. For years, it seems, he has been writing poetry, but it is only recently that an inapprehensive country has awakened to the fact. Now he is taking his rightful place among our foremost singers. What William Barnes was to Dorset, what T. E. Brown was to the Manx people—this is Mr. Gilbert to the folk of his native county of Lincoln. He has interpreted their lives, their sorrows, their aspirations, with a surprising fidelity. Mr. Gilbert never loses his grip upon realities. One feels that he knows the men of whom he writes in their most intimate moods; knows, too, their defects, which he does not shrink from recording. There is little of the dreamy idealism of the South in the peasant people of Lincolnshire. The outwardly respectable chapel-goer who asks himself, in a moment of introspection But why not have a good time here? Why should the Devil have all the beer? is true to type. But he has, too, his softer moods. Fidelity in friendship, courage, resource and perseverance—these are typical of the men of the Fens. - Summary by The New Witness, 1918

Recording facts

• Recording title: Rebel Verses
• Author credits: Bernard Gilbert
• Language: English
• Original MP3 tracks: 35
• Listed recording duration: 1:15:02

Catalogue topics

• poetry
• politics
• poem
• war
• england
• lincoln
• UK
• 1918

Opening tracks: first 24 of 35

1. 01 - The Rebel — 1:13
2. 02 - Song of Revolt — 1:55
3. 03 - There aint no God — 1:05
4. 04 - The Night is Dark — 5:46
5. 05 - Return — 1:31
6. 06 - Nietzsche — 2:08
7. 07 - Sacrament — 1:51
8. 08 - Fightin' Tomlinson — 2:59
9. 09 - The Labourer's Hymn — 2:03
10. 10 - Oliver Cromwell — 4:15
11. 11 - Anywhere but Here — 1:10
12. 12 - East Wind — 2:56
13. 13 - Peter Wray — 2:10
14. 14 - Oh Fools — 1:44
15. 15 - Elfin Dancer — 2:48
16. 16 - A. G. Webster — 1:05
17. 17 - Oh to be Home — 2:03
18. 18 - Give Soldiers a Vote — 1:12
19. 19 - Alone — 2:52
20. 20 - Flesh of our Flesh — 1:07
21. 21 - This Town is Hell — 2:10
22. 22 - Timberland Bells — 1:08
23. 23 - Dame Peach — 2:04
24. 24 - Friends — 1:51

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