War's Embers
Ivor Gurney
58 chapters · 1 h 37 min · English
Read by Alan Mapstone, nighthawks, Larry Wilson, Stefan Von Blon, Joanna Michal Hoyt, Erin Stone and others
Poetry · Miscellaneous
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A collection of poems by the Gloucestershire-born English poet Ivor Gurney describing his feelings about the First World War, during which he served on the Western Front and was wounded by a mustard gas attack, and its aftermath. - Summary by Alan Mapstone
Chapters
1 Dedication 2 min 2 The Volunteer 1 min 3 The Farm 4 min 4 Omens 1 min 5 Eternal Treasure 2 min 6 Fire in the Dusk 2 min 7 Turmut-Hoeing 1 min 8 In a Ward 1 min 9 Camps 2 min 10 Girl's Song 1 min 11 Solace of Men 1 min 12 Day-Boys and Choristers 3 min 13 At Reserve Depot 1 min 14 Toasts and Memories 2 min 15 From the Window 1 min 16 Ypres-Minsterworth 2 min 17 Near Midsummer 2 min 18 Toussaints 1 min 19 The Stone Breaker 2 min 20 Drifting Leaves 2 min 21 Contrasts 2 min 22 To F.W.H 1 min 23 The Immortal Hour 1 min 24 To His Love 1 min 25 Migrants 1 min 26 Old Martinmas Eve 1 min 27 After Music 1 min 28 The Target 2 min 29 Twigworth Vicarage 1 min 30 Hospital Pictures: 1. Ladies of Charity 2 min 31 2. Dust 2 min 32 3. "Aberdonian" 1 min 33 4. Companion-North-East Dugout 1 min 34 5. The Miner 1 min 35 6. Upstairs Piano 3 min 36 Hidden Tales 1 min 37 Recompense 1 min 38 The Tryst 1 min 39 The Plain 1 min 40 Rumours of War 2 min 41 On Rest 5 min 42 Dicky 1 min 43 The Day of Victory 5 min 44 Passionate Earth 1 min 45 The Poplar 1 min 46 Down Commercial Road (Gloucester) 2 min 47 From Omiecourt 1 min 48 Le Coq Francais 2 min 49 The Fisherman of Newnham 1 min 50 The Lock-Keeper 2 min 51 The Revellers 1 min 52 Annie Laurie 1 min 53 The Battalion is Now on Rest 1 min 54 Photographs 2 min 55 That County 1 min 56 Interval 1 min 57 De Profundis 2 min 58 The Tower 2 min
