{"id":5959,"date":"2024-11-28T13:35:10","date_gmt":"2024-11-28T13:35:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/sites.glos.ac.uk\/landscapearchitecture\/?p=5959"},"modified":"2024-11-28T13:35:10","modified_gmt":"2024-11-28T13:35:10","slug":"walking-gloucestershire-with-ivor-gurney","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/sites.glos.ac.uk\/landscapearchitecture\/2024\/11\/28\/walking-gloucestershire-with-ivor-gurney\/","title":{"rendered":"WALKING GLOUCESTERSHIRE with IVOR GURNEY"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p class=\"\"><strong>Eleanor Rawling<\/strong>\u00a0gave this year\u2019s\u00a0<strong>John Simpson Memorial lecture<\/strong>\u00a0last Tuesday. Ivor Gurney (1890-1937) was a local poet, born in Gloucester, was gassed in the first world war and suffered long afterwards spending much time in mental asylums. Despite this he never lost his love of the Gloucestershire landscape and, while he was also extremely musically gifted, the lecture concentrated on the landscapes that inspired his poetry: the walks he took along the streets of old Gloucester, the river banks and meadowlands of the Severn, and the high hills and scarp edges of the Cotswolds.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"1024\" height=\"758\" src=\"https:\/\/sites.glos.ac.uk\/landscapearchitecture\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/159\/sites\/445\/2024\/11\/bookcoverrx-1024x758.jpg\" alt=\"Book cover: Walking Gloucestershire with Ivor Gurney\" class=\"wp-image-5942\" srcset=\"https:\/\/sites.glos.ac.uk\/landscapearchitecture\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/159\/sites\/445\/2024\/11\/bookcoverrx-1024x758.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/sites.glos.ac.uk\/landscapearchitecture\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/159\/sites\/445\/2024\/11\/bookcoverrx-300x222.jpg 300w, https:\/\/sites.glos.ac.uk\/landscapearchitecture\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/159\/sites\/445\/2024\/11\/bookcoverrx-768x568.jpg 768w, https:\/\/sites.glos.ac.uk\/landscapearchitecture\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/159\/sites\/445\/2024\/11\/bookcoverrx.jpg 1223w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1024px) 100vw, 1024px\" \/><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"\">The talk was sprinkled with selections from his varied poems, accompanied by identifiable locations and specific descriptions but also references to his feelings and emotional attachment to beautiful meaningful places. The slide below, taken from the presentation, here emphasises the significance of his memory that \u201ccould reproduce the scene but not the performance\u2026\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-full\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"1024\" height=\"745\" src=\"https:\/\/sites.glos.ac.uk\/landscapearchitecture\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/159\/sites\/445\/2024\/11\/for-blog-1024x745-1.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-5944\" srcset=\"https:\/\/sites.glos.ac.uk\/landscapearchitecture\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/159\/sites\/445\/2024\/11\/for-blog-1024x745-1.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/sites.glos.ac.uk\/landscapearchitecture\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/159\/sites\/445\/2024\/11\/for-blog-1024x745-1-300x218.jpg 300w, https:\/\/sites.glos.ac.uk\/landscapearchitecture\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/159\/sites\/445\/2024\/11\/for-blog-1024x745-1-768x559.jpg 768w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1024px) 100vw, 1024px\" \/><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"\"><em>Walking Gloucestershire with Ivor Gurney \u2013 poetry &amp; landscape explored through 20 circular walks<\/em>&nbsp;by Eleanor Rawling published 2024 by Logaston Press<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"\"><em>Ivor Gurney\u2019s Gloucestershire \u2013 exploring poetry and place<\/em>&nbsp;by Eleanor Rawling published 2011 by the History Press<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Eleanor Rawling\u00a0gave this year\u2019s\u00a0John Simpson Memorial lecture\u00a0last Tuesday. 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