"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."
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Philip Larkin "Horn of Plenty", in Further Requirements ([2001] 2002) p. 320.
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Gavin Ewart
Gavin Buchanan Ewart (4 February 1916 – 25 October 1995) was a prolific British poet known for his witty and sometimes unsettling treatments of unlikely subjects.
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