Blank greetings card with envelope featuring:

David Emery Gascoyne NPG x35717

© Mark Gerson / National Portrait Gallery, London

by Mark Gerson

Gascoyne's first collection Roman Balcony and other Poems was published when he was sixteen. That same year he travelled to Paris, drawn to the avant-garde experimentation. In the late 1930s he abandoned surrealist prose after discovering the poems of Pierre Jean Jouve (1887-1976) and enjoyed critical success with works including 'Man's Life is this Meat' (1936) and 'Requiem' (1950). In the 1960s he suffered from depression and while a psychiatric patient Gascoyne met his future wife, Judy Lewis, who helped him recover from depression.... more

Card size: 125mm x 175mm

Images are printed in their original proportions, within a white border.