66203: Crucifix Corner

Manuscript in pen in Ivor Gurney's hand. Many versions of the poem exist, including a draft in the green covered manuscript notebook 64.4. That draft was included in included in the Edmund Blunden and Leonard Clark editions of Ivor Gurney's works in 1954 and 1973 respectively, and in P.J. Kavanagh's 'Ivor Gurney, Collected Poems' (2004). From a pink mottled hard-cover exercise book. The inside front cover is inscribed 'Music to Miss C. Rogers...Poetry to Professor Saintsbury / Bath'. The inside back cover is inscribed 'Instead of a home / I require death'.