This rich and varied collection, his first in ten years, gathers Harry Guest's poems from 1983 to 1990. Intelligence, compassion, formal inventiveness and a gift for evocation both of landscape and things remembered blend to give his poetry its attra...

John Gallas was born in 1950 in Wellington, New Zealand. He came to England in 1971 to study Old Icelandic at Oxford, and stayed. He has worked for many years as a teacher with the Leicestershire Behaviour Support Team. He has published ten collectio...

"Lost and Found" contains Harry Guest's work written during 1975-1982. "At their best Harry Guest's poems are outstanding for their precise imagery and expression of a refinement of sensibility towards atmosphere and emotion", John Cotton wrote in "P...

The second collection of a major American poet. Of her previous collection of poems, "Firstborn", published in England in 1969, John Fuller wrote in The Listener: "Her words are alive and her perceptions have strength. This is a very genuine and enjo...

"A House Against the Night" collects Harry Guest's poems written mainly during 1969-73 – the latter part of his time in Japan, and the first two years since his return to England.