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Elegies
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Artikel-Nr:
9781848615960
Veröffentl:
2018
Einband:
Paperback
Erscheinungsdatum:
13.07.2018
Seiten:
30
Autor:
Harry Guest
Gewicht:
53 g
Format:
216x140x2 mm
Sprache:
Englisch
Beschreibung:
Harry Guest was born in Penarth in 1932. He read Modern Languages at Cam-bridge before beginning a career as a teacher in schools and universities in France, Japan and England. With his wife, Lynn Guest, an historical novelist, he now lives in Exeter. His Collected Poems, A Puzzling Harvest, was published by Anvil in 2002. A further collection, Some Time, appeared in 2010, while Shearsman also published a mixed volume of translations and original work, Comparisons & Conversions, in 2008. His many other translations include a selected poems of Victor Hugo, The Distance, The Shadows (2002) and the Penguin volume, Post-War Japanese Poetry (with Lynn Guest and Kajima Shozo, 1972).
Harry Guest's remarkable sequence of Elegies were first published as a chapbook in 1980 by Pig Press in Durham, and were later collected in Lost and Found a large collection of the author's work in 1983. here we take the chance to return the poems to their original chapbook environment, convinced that the world still needs work like this. Still available in the author's Anvil collected poems, A Puzzling Harvest, they benefit from being able to breathe more easily in their original form…