Tony Lopez – författare

In this twenty-first century poem, Tony Lopez samples and seamlessly combines writings from many fields of science and culture, composing by means of intuitive and discreet intervention something quite unique. In a review of Darwin (one 10% section of Only More So) Ron Silliman described this writing as "the most exquisitely constructed prose I've ever read-more lush than Proust"; he wrote that it "just might be the most beautiful poetry collection ever written". Only More So engages the darkest aspects of human nature, extinction and genocide; it may also be the first Constructivist poem composed on the pleasure principle.

"[...] by far my favourite individual volume of poetry this year [was] Tony Lopez's False Memory, a series of sonnet sequences collaging and remixing the white noise of 1990s Britain into a disorienting, sometimes hilarious, often sinister, and always satirical challenge." -Robert Potts, The Guardian, 6 December 2003."

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.