Skip to content
EntityQ5528137· pop 6· linked from 79 articles

Gavin Ewart

Sign in to save

Also known as Gavin Buchanan Ewart

English poet (1916–1995)

Person · Open Library

Born
1916
Died
1995
Works
21

Top works

  • The Penguin book of light verse
  • All my little ones
  • Alphabet soup
  • Capital letters
  • Caterpillar stew

via Open Library + Wikidata

Music · MusicBrainz

Type
Person
Country
GB
Active from
1916-02-04
Active to
1995-10-25

via MusicBrainz · CC0

Listeners · Last.fm

Listeners
4
Total plays
18

<a href="https://www.last.fm/music/Gavin+Ewart">Read more on Last.fm</a>

via Last.fm · Gavin Ewart

Quotes

  • Miss Twye was soaping her breasts in the bathWhen she heard behind her a meaning laughAnd to her amazement she discoveredA wicked man in the bathroom cupboard.
  • My life may be much happier to-morrowHunger and love that press against the body,The two eternal needs we recognise,Desires that so relentlessly pursue one,May get me down or raise me to the skiesAnd make me a Don Bradman or Don Juan.
  • Everything was twice repeated,Sometimes more than twice repeated,As they worked through the agenda(It seemed elastic, that agenda,Becoming longer, never shorter),Their utterances grew long, not shorter,It was just like spreading butter.
  • The back streets of Fulham, Yorkshiremen in pub gardens, a laboratory rabbit, office friendships, a cutting, a quotation – anything can start him off, and when he brings us back from the outing we are usually either shaken or stirred, and sometimes both, reflecting that there is really nothing, however surreal, extravagant, improper or mundane, that Ewart could not write a poem about.

via Wikiquote · CC BY-SA

Available in 3 languages

via Wikidata sitelinks · CC0