W B Yeats was elected to the Irish Senate in 1922 and again in 1925. The Second World War poet John Pudney ("For Johnny") married the daughter of the independent MP A P Herbert, but failed to win Sevenoaks for Labour in 1945.
Hugh MacDiarmid (Christopher Murray Grieve) fought Glasgow Kelvingrove for the SNP in 1950 and Kinross and West Perthshire for the Communist Party in 1964, even though he had already been expelled from both parties.
Gwynfor Evans was Plaid Cymru's first MP, winning the Carmarthen by-election in 1966. There were at least two poems written about his victory, and Evans has a whole CD of poetry and music dedicated to his memory. Harold Wilson did not write poetry, but his wife, Mary, did and sold 70,000 copies of her Selected Poems, issued in 1970.
