Severn and Somme: Free Audiobook and Listening Guide

Severn and Somme, credited to Ivor Gurney, 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 Severn and Somme by Ivor Gurney. Read in English by Librivox Volunteers. 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

Recording facts

• Recording title: Severn and Somme
• Author credits: Ivor Gurney
• Language: English
• Original MP3 tracks: 45
• Listed recording duration: 1:03:49

Catalogue topics

• First World War
• English poetry

Opening tracks: first 24 of 45

1. 00 - Preface — 4:11
2. 01 - To Certain Comrades — 1:54
3. 02 - The Fire Kindled — 1:29
4. 03 - To the Poet Before Battle — 1:18
5. 04 - Maisemore — 1:36
6. 05 - Afterwards — 1:07
7. 06 - Carol — 1:18
8. 07 - Strange Service — 1:47
9. 08 - Serenity — 0:55
10. 09 - The Signaller's Vision — 1:17
11. 10 - The Mother — 0:46
12. 11 - To England - A Note — 1:15
13. 12 - Bach and the Sentry — 0:56
14. 13 - Letters — 1:00
15. 14 - Strafe — 0:53
16. 15 - Acquiescence — 1:09
17. 16 - The Strong Thing — 0:58
18. 17 - Scots — 1:23
19. 18 - To an Unknown Lady — 1:34
20. 19 - Song and Pain — 0:56
21. 20 - Purple and Black — 1:17
22. 21 - West Country — 1:12
23. 22 - Firelight — 1:11
24. 23 - The Estaminet — 2:13

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