Possessions ['Sand has the ants...']

Item

Title

Possessions ['Sand has the ants...']

Identifier

7235.jpg
IG-64-4-72v.jpg

Creator

Gurney, Ivor (1890-1937)

Abstract

Manuscript in pen in Ivor Gurney's hand. On a loose-leaf page found in a black hard-cover exercise book inscribed 'I.B. Gurney / 1 Westfield Terrace / Longford / Gloucester'. Written on the reverse of the page showing 'Going Out At Dawn'. The poem exists in numerous drafts. The version shown here was included in P.J. Kavanagh's 'Ivor Gurney: Collected Poems' (2004). Another poem with the same title, found in the green manuscript notebook 64.3, begins 'France has victory...'.

Date

1920 - 1922

Date Created

1920-01-01

Temporal Coverage

1922-12-31

Spatial Coverage

Source

Notebook

Medium

Paper

Format

Pen

Type

Poem

Contributor

Alisa Miller