List Of Writers

GUEST, HARRY

1 Alexandra Terrace, Exeter, Devonshire, EX4 6SY
Tel: (01392) 257142

Poet, novelist and translator. Born Penarth, 1932. Lived in Connecticut, Paris and Tokyo. Educated at Cambridge and the Sorbonne. Taught French and German at Felsted and Lancing before taking up a lectureship in English Literature at Yokohama National University. he is an Honorary Research Fellow of Exeter University and in 1998 was awarded an Honorary Doctorate of Letters by the University of Plymouth. His radio plays, The Inheritance and The Emperor of Outer Space (Pig Press, 1983) were broadcast on BBC Radio 3. His collection A House Against the Night (Anvil, 1976) was a Poetry Book Society recommendation and The Distance, The Shadows (Anvil, 2002) (translations of Victor Hugo) won an honorable mention in the European Poetry Translation awards.

Selected Publications:
Arrangements (Anvil, 1968)
The Cutting Room (Anvil, 1970)
The Place (Sceptre, 1971)
The Achievements (Sceptre, 1974)
Enchanted Acres and Other Poems (Sceptre, 1975)
House Against the Night (Anvil, 1976)
Two Poems (Sceptre, 1976)
Days (Anvil, 1978)
Hidden Change (Greylag, 1978)
Zeami in Exile (Sceptre, 1978)
Emperor of Outer Space (Pig Press, 1983)
Lost and Found: Poems 1976–82 (Anvil, 1983)
Lost Pictures - a novel (Albertine, 1991)
Coming to Terms (Anvil, 1993)
Travellers Literary Companion to Japan (In Print Publishing, 1994)
So Far (Stride, 1998)
The Artist on the Artist (Elm Bank, 2000)
A Puzzling Harvest: Collected Poems 1955-2000 (Anvil, 2002)
Comparisons (Bluechrome Press, 2008)

Contributed to:
Post–War Japanese Poetry (contributor) (Penguin, 1972)
Victor Hugo: The Distance, The Shadows (translator) (Anvil, 2002)



Eligible Writers on Tour subjects offered:
1. Read and discuss own poetry
2. Japanese poetry
3. The relationship between poetry and the other arts
4. Translation seminar

AGE RANGE: sixth form, undergraduates, adults