The word 'recounts' is correct and usable in written English.
It is a verb that means to tell or narrate an event or story. Example: The elderly man recounts his experiences during the war with vivid details, bringing tears to the eyes of his listeners.
He recounts his own fights with his wife at home, and the joy of helping his son.
In a report published by WaterAid last year one schoolgirl recounts that "in our school, there is no water facility in the toilet- it is so difficult, sometimes I have to miss school".
He recounts joining a reprisal party in the mid-1860s, while mayor, for the killers of a shepherd: "They got on top of a big mound & defied us & smacked their buttocks at us & hurled large stones down on us, & hid themselves behind large trees and huge rocks but some of them paid dearly for their bravado.
He recounts a night at the Senate estimates committee, "I was forced to eat in the Parliament dining room, it's a form of vengeance by the Australian citizenry on their politicians.
The actor Simon Russell Beale, one of Mendes's closest collaborators, having played Iago and Ariel for him, recounts one of the rehearsals for the Tempest at the RSC some years ago.
He recounts with glee a story about Billy Elliot's test screenings in the US, in mall-multiplex country.
Anka recounts how she left Terezín for Auschwitz, "knowing I was pregnant, to follow my husband".
As Sampi recounts the detail there is a numbness.
The obsession of the cerebral with the celebrity reaches back to her own life, as is affirmed by a new film, My Week With Marilyn: it recounts the condescension of Laurence Olivier and her husband Arthur Miller.
Rose Hunter, from North Staffordshire Miners' Support Group, recounts her experiences at a commemorative event in Bethnal Green: "Thatcher thought the women would get the men back to work.
As Powell recounts his days wooing the republican movement from violence in effort to persuade Eta and its political wing to follow the same path he will not want to disclose how much the British government actually knew about what was going on inside the IRA during the two Provo ceasefires and the runup to political negotiations leading to the Belfast and later the St Andrews agreements.
