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.

[3] 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.

[3] The outbreak of World War II saw him serve as a Royal Artillery officer, a period which inevitably interrupted his poetic endeavours.

[3] Ewart’s poetic journey began under the aegis of Geoffrey Grigson, with his work appearing in New Verse at seventeen.

Ewart’s poetry, noted for its irreverent eroticism and sharp commentary on human behaviour, was both entertaining and thought-provoking.

[3] Nigel Spivey recalled interviewing Ewart for the Financial Times over a convivial lunch the day before his death, at which 'the main item on the agenda was alcohol, not food'.