Gerda Mayer, Date of Birth, Place of Birth

Gerda Mayer

British poet

Date of Birth: 09-Jun-1927

Place of Birth: Karlovy Vary, Karlovy Vary Region, Czech Republic

Profession: poet

Zodiac Sign: Gemini

Gerda Kamilla Mayer (born 9 June 1927) is an English poet born to a Jewish family in Karlsbad, Czechoslovakia.
She escaped to England from Prague in 1939, aged eleven, on a Kindertransport flight organised by Trevor Chadwick.
Having composed her first poem, in German, at the age of four, she continued her education in Dorset and Surrey and began writing poetry in English.
She has published several volumes of verse and her poems have appeared in many anthologies.
She has been described by Carol Ann Duffy as a fine poet "who should be better known."