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About
Roy Gaverston-Knight
"The
Warwickshire Poet"
Roy Gaveston-Knight was born in Nottingham in 1921
and moved to Kenilworth, Warwickshire, at around three
years of age, when his late father founded a garage
business in the town. Surrounded by rural beauty he
developed a love for all things natural, while at the
same time being drawn towards a lifetime's devotion to
God. He scholarshipped to Myton at ten years old..
first poems were published in the Courier at fifteen.
World events intervened, when Roy went on to become
a 'backroom boy' on radar in the Royal Navy during the
Second World War. He was ordained in Scotland, still
in uniform, at the end of 1945. It was during this
time that Roy began writing the poems which were to
bring him so many awards, the patronage of Lords
for his first three anthologies on Warwickshire, and
the acclamation of 'The Warwickshire Poet'.
Written with pastoral charm, and beautifully expressing
Roy's deep love of nature in all its forms, his poetry flows
like the rivers and brookways of his home county. Each
invites the reader to join him and his 'Boon Companion'
and wife of 27 years, Mary as they experience each new
river, forest, glade or creature.
Down the years his poems have been published by
around 450 differnt publications and won many awards
(7 in 1999 alone). He has written welcomes for
the Queen and others, including the Queen Mother, as
they came to open the Royal Show at Stoneleigh, and
tributes to Princess Diana..given after dinner recitals
before Lords and their wives. In 1985 he was
commissioned to write and present a poem in honour
of the Tudor King, Henry, who was born in Pembroke
Castle, on the 500th anniversary of his accession.
This in front of a great assembly of Lords and high
officials of that county.
In 1995 Roy and Mary visited the
United States touring widely and
taking the invitation to preach at
a number of churches from California to
Louisiana, delighting the congregations
with his poetic delivery. On August 5th
while attending the International Society
of Poets Conference at the Hilton hotel in
Washington DC, he won first prize for his
epic poem "Catrin's Harp" which went on to be
read on many US radio stations.
Now retired and living in South Wales Roy happily
succumbed to the cries of his many fans to have his
life-long collection of verse published. Despite
being unfamiliar with computers and the Internet himself
Roy "felt led" when he discovered the option
of ebooks. Now he has gathered them altogether in this
wonderful ten volume testimony to the life time of a master
craftsman of the English language.
