Ewart, Gavin (Buchanan) (1914–1995)

English poet. He published his first book of verse Poems and Songs in 1939. His second book, The Londoners (1964), mainly topographical poems, was followed by many volumes of light, but sometimes by contrast horrific and graphic, poems of technical merit, collected in The Collected Ewart 1933–1980 (1980), Collected Poems 1980–1990 (1991), and Selected Poems 1933–1993 (1996).

Ewart was born in London and educated at Christ's College, Cambridge. After war service in North Africa and Italy, he worked for the British Council from 1946–52, and was then an advertising copywriter until 1971. He also edited The Penguin Book of Light Verse (1980) and Other People's Clerihews (1983).