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Lord Gawain Douglas

 

 

 

 

Lord Gawain DouglasLord Gawain Archibald Francis Douglas was born in 1948, the younger son of Francis, the 11th Marquess of Queensberry. Following his father's death in the 1950s he went with his mother Mimi to live an unusual and solitary childhood in Portmeirion, North Wales.

 

Formal education (which Gawain studiously ignored) always took second place to that provided by the mountains, rivers and forests – the mystic Welsh country inspired his early poetic imaginings.

In 1971 Gawain married Nicolette, a fellow student at the Royal Academy of Music, where they both studied piano, and they have brought up a large family of six children (one son, five daughters) together. They now live in Deal in Kent, close to the sea.

 

He is the author of 'Fortuna', a collection of poetry.

This collection, "Fortuna", is a distillation of his poetry from the last thirty-six years, from the earliest poems, written on Osea Island, Essex, aged twenty-two, up to the present time. Candid, profoundly personal and at times formally experimental, these poems are never less than engaging and more than worthy of the Douglas name.

 

 

 

 

 

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