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Author: Roy Gaveston Knight
Title: Voices in the Harp Published: Regent Publications 2000 www.onlineoriginals.com ISBN: 1-84045-055-X Price: ebook US $8/ Paperback US$12 Available formats: exe. , paperback |
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The author has captured so much of folklore and legend as he roved through
North and South, finding rich native warmth amongst quaint and homely people.
The sweet smell of a peat fire still caught in some olden areas.
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Roy Gaveston Knight accepting the International Poets Prize for "Catrin's Harp" at the Washington Hilton in 1995 |
Voices in the Harp is Roy Gaveston Knight's fourteenth anthology of poetry and illustrations.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 different 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.
Uniquely, Regent Publications maintains three separate book lists, one for poetry, one for How-to books for writers, artists and photographers and one for fiction containing books selected for their literary or intellectual quality and which might not normally expect to find a home with major publishing houses because of the fridge or experimental content.
The World Wide Web has a wealth of information about the places featured in Roy Gaveston Knights poetry
