While I Write

Item

Title

Identifier

7479.cpd
IG-64-7f

Creator

Gurney, Ivor (1890-1937)

Abstract

Manuscript in pen in Ivor Gurney's hand. An alternative version exists in manuscript notebook 67.8. The version shown here was included in P.J. Kavanagh's 'Ivor Gurney: Collected Poems' (2004). Written while Gurney was either at Barnwood House asylum, Gloucester (September-December 1922) or Stone House, Dartford, Kent (the City of London Mental Hospital where Gurney stayed from December 1922 until his death).

Date

September 1922 - 1925

Date Created

1922-09-01

Temporal Coverage

1925-12-31

Spatial Coverage

Gloucester or Dartford, England

Source

Notebook

Medium

Paper

Format

Pen

Type

Poem

number of pages

2

Contributor

Alisa Miller