Harry Guest was born in Penarth in 1932. He read Modern Languages at Cambridge and wrote a thesis on Mallarme at the Sorbonne before beginning a career as a teacher in schools and universities in Japan and England. With his wife, Lynn Guest, a historical novelist, he now lives in Exeter. His Collected Poems, A Puzzling Harvest, was published by Anvil in 2002. Subsequent collections include Some Times (Anvil) and Comparisons & Conversions (Shearsman). He is also the author of three novels and a number of translations from French, German and Japanese. This festschrift volume is published to coincide with his 80th birthday and features tributes from friends, colleagues and fellow poets and translators.

Harry Guest was born in Penarth in 1932. He read Modern Languages at Cambridge and wrote a thesis on Mallarme at the Sorbonne before beginning a career as a teacher in schools and universities in Japan and England. With his wife, Lynn Guest, a historical novelist, he now lives in Exeter. His Collected Poems, A Puzzling Harvest, was published by Anvil in 2002. Subsequent collections include Some Times (Anvil) and Comparisons & Conversions (Shearsman). He is also the author of three novels and a number of translations from French, German and Japanese. This festschrift volume is published to coincide with his 80th birthday and features tributes from friends, colleagues and fellow poets and translators.

Harry Guest was born in Penarth in 1932. He read Modern Languages at Cambridge and wrote a thesis on Mallarme at the Sorbonne before beginning a career as a teacher in schools and universities in Japan and England. With his wife, Lynn Guest, a historical novelist, he now lives in Exeter. His Collected Poems, A Puzzling Harvest, was published by Anvil in 2002. Subsequent collections include Some Times (Anvil) and Comparisons & Conversions (Shearsman). He is also the author of three novels and a number of translations from French, German and Japanese. This festschrift volume is published to coincide with his 80th birthday and features tributes from friends, colleagues and fellow poets and translators.