Selected Poems 1933-1993

Informationen zum Autor Gavin Ewart was born in London in 1916. He studied at Christ's College, Cambridge and was literary editor of Granta from 1936-7. His Poems and Songs were published in 1939. Londoners appeared in 1964 and was followed by, among others, Pleasures of the Flesh (1966), The Deceptive Grin of the Gravel Porters (1968), The Gavin Ewart Show (1971) for which he won a Cholmondeley Award for Poetry, An Imaginary Love Affair (1974) and 85 Poems (1993). The Collected Poems was first published in 1980 with a new edition covering the years 1980-1990 being published in 1991. Zusammenfassung He was largely known for his irreverence to sexual convention and is the second most prolific contributor to Making Love to Marilyn Monroe: The Faber Book of Blue Verse. The poems in the Selected Poems were chosen by Ewart before his death in 1995 and were published for the first time in 1996.

Product details

• Authors: Gavin Ewart
• Assisted by: Gavi Ewart (Editor), Gavin Ewart (Editor)
• Publisher: Faber & Faber
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback / Softback
• Released: 29.05.2008
• EAN: 9780571241958
• ISBN: 978-0-571-24195-8
• No. of pages: 208
• Dimensions: 135 mm x 216 mm x 15 mm
• Subjects: Fiction > Narrative literature; Literary studies: poetry & poets, Faber Finds, Literary studies: poetry and poets