Memory, including the tricks it plays, is this book's overriding theme. The poems seek to revive happy, confusing, sad and celebratory times over more than half a century, from affairs in distant youth to the credit crunch. They recall friends now beyond known life, misinterpretations giving rise to comedy, epiphanies like a newborn calf or the shock of a painting, and hours dedicated to translation or literary experiments. The book, which also includes translations of some favourite modern poems, tries to come to terms with time itself.

About the Author
Harry Guest was born in Penarth in 1932. He read Modern Languages at Cambridge before beginning a career as a teacher in schools and universities in France, Japan and England. With his wife Lynn Guest, a historical novelist, he lives in Exeter.

Reviews
'The publication of Harry Guest's Collected Poems (A Puzzling Harvest, 2002) was something of a revelation... [It] revealed that he had gone on developing, experimenting with forms, shunning popularity, performing very little, but continuing to search - in civilized cadences, with wit and genial authority - for a moral and spiritual centre' - John Greening, Times Literary Supplement



Book Information
ISBN 9780856464256
Author Harry Guest
Format Paperback
Page Count 104
Imprint Anvil Press Poetry
Publisher Carcanet Press Ltd