Harry Guest
Harry Guest (born Henry Bayly Guest; 6 October 1932 – 20 March 2021) was a British poet born in Wales.[1]
Life and career
Harry Guest was educated at
Plymouth University in 1998. Apart from his many collections of poetry, he is well known as a translator from the French and Japanese, and has published several novels and non-fiction books including the Traveller's Literary Companion to Japan (1994) and The Artist on the Artist (2000). His translations include a selected poems of Victor Hugo, The Distance, The Shadows (2002) and Post-War Japanese Poetry (with Lynn Guest and Kajima Shôzô, 1972). He lived in Exeter, and was married to the historical novelist Lynn Guest, they have two children.[5][6][7]
Works
- A Different Darkness, London: Outposts, 1964
- Arrangements, Northwood, UK: Anvil, 1968
- The Cutting-Room, London: Anvil, 1970
- The Place, Northamptonshire, UK: Sceptre, 1971
- Mountain Journal, Sheffield, UK: Rivelin, 1975
- A House Against the Night, London: Anvil, 1976
- English Poems, London: Words, 1976
- Days, London: Anvil, 1978
- Elegies, Durham, UK: Pig, 1980
- Lost and Found, London: Anvil, 1983
- The Emperor of Outer Space, Durham, UK: Pig, 1983
- Lost Pictures, Exeter, UK: Albertine, 1991
- Coming to Terms, London: Anvil, 1994
- So Far, Exeter, UK: Stride, 1998
- Versions, Nether Stowey, UK: Odyssey, 1999
- A Puzzling Harvest, Collected Poems 1955-2000, London: Anvil, 2002
- Time After Time, Exeter, UK: Albertine, 2005
- Comparisons & Conversions, ISBN 978-1848610194Exeter, UK: Shearsman, 2009
- Some Times, London: Anvil, 2010
References
- ^ "HarryGUEST". Funeral-notices. Retrieved 13 August 2021.
- ^ His co-editors for the first issue were Michael Bakewell, Ronald Hayman, Karl Miller and Michael Podro; the magazine was later taken over by Malcolm Ballin and Paul McQuial. See Chequer, 1 (1953) and David Miller and Richard Price, British Poetry Magazines 1914-2000: A History and Bibliography of Little Magazines, London: The British Library, 2006, 92.
- ^ Edward Lucie-Smith (ed), British Poetry since 1945, Harmondsworth, UK: Penguin, 1970, 363.
- ^ Edward Lucie-Smith (ed), British Poetry since 1945 (revsd edn), Harmondsworth, UK: Penguin, 1985, 233.
- ^ Harry Guest Shearsman Titles
- ^ Harry Guest Archived 2011-07-07 at the Wayback Machine Anvil Press Poetry
- ^ The Writers of Wales Database Archived 2014-05-12 at the Wayback Machine academi.org
External links
- The Writers of Wales Database
- Harry Guest Anvil Press
- Harry Guest Shearsman Titles
- Translated Penguin Book - at Penguin First Editions reference site of early first edition Penguin Books.
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