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BIOGRAPHY: Robert Knight was born in December 1933 at Portsmouth, England. After service as a Flying Officer with the R.A.F. and NATO, he founded the well reputed George Knight and Partners estate agency in the Hampstead district of N.W. London. In 1987 he decided to immigrate to Portugal and commenced business as a distributor of watersports equipment and opened the very successful Clube Náutico de Zezere. In 2002 he made a second change in lifestyle by retiring from business and has devoted his remaining years to writing essays, poems and commentaries more than two hundred of which have been published by Academia.edu and in Portuguese journals such as The Portugal News, The Resident, O Templário and SOL. Most of these are shown in the archives listed below.
He has dual Portuguese/British nationality and for the past twenty years has used the name of Roberto Cavaleiro for both professional and social purposes. He lives quietly in a converted farm building near Tomar.

POEMS
- Thoughts that went astray. May 2026
- A poem for All Souls Day Nov 2025
- The final fall from Grace. August 2025
- Are you really dead? June 2025
- A poem for the end of 2024 Dec 2024
- Playground memories of the 1940s Sept 2024
- Property blues May 2024
- Swing doors in a hospice April 2024
- Communication from has-beens to wannabes March 2024
- Trials of passion Feb 2024
- A writer´s dream Sept 2023
- The dancing fifties Sept 2023
- Your smile July 2023
- New Year´s Eve 2022 Dec 2022
- Christmas Eve 2022 Dec 2022
- The trapeze song Feb 2024
- Two poems for All Saints Day Dec 2023
- Holocaust Memorial Day Jan 2022
- For Papaia Sept 2021
- Waiting for the night to pass July 2021

Essays -Current Publications
- EU : Cyber Independence Under Assault July 2026
- Workslop : The New AI In-word
- Sines Oil Refinery
- Touristic Enterprise at Albufeira do Castelo do Bode “
- A Strong Portugal Fund June 2026
- Mercosur
- A Portuguese Dream for Midsummer´s Night
- Portuguese Magic - Part 3
- Sines: Energy – The Way Ahead.
- Data Centres – A Future under the Waves
- Portugal: Green Energy May 2026
- Not so Quiet on the Western Front
- The Way to the Stars
- Cyber-wars : The Security and Control of Data