Gavin Ewart

Gavin Buchanan Ewart FRSL (4 February 1916 – 23 October 1995) was a British poet who contributed to Geoffrey Grigson's New Verse at the age of seventeen.

Early life Gavin Ewart was born in London to George and Dorothy (née Turner). His father, a distinguished surgeon at St George's Hospital, came from an intellectually robust lineage; his paternal grandfather, James Cossar Ewart, was a renowned Scottish zoologist. His familial milieu included two younger sisters, Nancy and Jean, born in 1917 and 1920, respectively.

Selected bibliography 1939: Poems and Songs 1964: Londoners. Pleasure of the Flesh 1971: The Gavin Ewart Show 1976: No Fool like an Old Fool 1977: Or Where a Young Penguin Lies Screaming 1978: All My Little Ones 1980: The Collected Ewart: 1933–1980 1984: The Ewart Quarto 1985: The Gavin Ewart Show: Selected Poems 1939–1985 1985: The Young Pobble's Guide to His Toes 1987: Late Pickings 1989: Penultimate Poems 1991: Collected Poems: 1980–1990

As editor 1980: The Penguin Book of Light Verse

Honours Cholmondeley Award, 1971 Fellow of the Royal Society of Literature (FRSL), 1981