E. V. Knox (Edmund George Valpy Knox, May 10, 1881 - January 2, 1971), was a poet and satirist who wrote under the pseudonym Evoe. He was editor of Punch 1932-1949, having been a regular contributor in verse and prose for many years. May 10 is the 130th day of the year in the Gregorian Calendar (131st in leap years). ... 1881 was a common year starting on Saturday (see link for calendar). ... January 2 is the 2nd day of the year in the Gregorian Calendar. ... 1971 is a common year starting on Friday (click for link to calendar). ... Poets are authors of poems, or of other forms of poetry such as dramatic verse. ... Satire is a literary technique of writing or art which exposes the follies of its subject (for example, individuals, organizations, or states) to ridicule, often as an intended means of provoking or preventing change. ... A pseudonym (Greek: false name) is a fictitious name used by an individual as an alternative to their legal name (whereas an allonym is the name of another actual person assumed by one person in authorship of a work of art; e. ... Punch was a British weekly magazine of humour and satire published from 1841 to 1992 and from 1996 to 2002. ...

He was father to author Penelope Fitzgerald and brother of priest and author Ronald Knox. Penelope Fitzgerald (17 December 1916 - 28 April 2000) was an English poet, novelist and biographer. ... Ronald Arbuthnott Knox (1888-1957) was an English theologian and crime writer. ...

He served in the Lincolnshire Regiment during the First World War and Punch reported in October 1917 that he had been wounded. Ypres, 1917, in the vicinity of the Battle of Passchendaele. ...

As a poet, he was noted for his ability to provide topical satirical poems for Punch in the style of well-known contemporary poets such as John Drinkwater, John Masefield, Walter de la Mare, Edmund Blunden, Robert Bridges and J. C. Squire - usually managing to evoke the poet's general style and manner without resorting to parodying any particular poem. John Drinkwater (June 1, 1882 - March 25, 1937) was an English poet and dramatist. ... John Edward Masefield (1 June 1878 – 12 May 1967), was a British poet and writer, and Poet Laureate of the United Kingdom from 1930 until his death in 1967. ... Walter de la Mare Walter John de la Mare (1873-1956) was an English poet, short story writer, and novelist, probably best remembered (though not necessarily justly so) for his works for children. ... Edmund Charles Blunden (November 1, 1896 - January 20, 1974) , although not one of the top trio of English World War I writers, was an important and influential poet, author and critic. ... Robert Seymour Bridges (October 23, 1844 - April 21, 1930) was an English poet, holder of the honour of poet laureate from 1913. ... For British late 20th century musician of the same name, see John Squire Sir John Squire (John Collings Squire) (1882–1958) was an English poet, writer, historian, and influential literary editor of the post-World War I period. ...

Although best known for satire, some of his more serious poems, written during the Second World War while he held the editor's chair at Punch, evoke by turns wistful nostalgia, grim determination and a longing for eventual peace, often using metres from Greek or Latin poetry or historical English forms. Mushroom cloud from the nuclear explosion over Nagasaki rising 18 km into the air. ...

Books

Collections of Evoe's writings, usually reprinted from the pages of Punch, were published as follows:

• The Brazen Lyre (1911)
• Parodies Regained (1921)
• These Liberties (1923)
• Poems of Impudence (1926)
• It Occurs to Me (1926)
• I'll Tell the World (1928)
• Wonderful Outings (1928)
• Here's Misery! (1928)
• This Other Eden (1929)
• Fiction as She is Wrote
• Fancy Now
• Quaint Specimens
• Awful Occasions
• Gorgeous Times
• Things that Annoy Me
• Slight Irritations
• Folly Calling (1932)
• Blue Feathers
• An Hour from Victoria
• A Little Loot
• In My Old Days (1969)