# Harry Guest > Mediated Wiki article. Canonical URL: https://mediated.wiki/source/Harry_Guest > Markdown URL: https://mediated.wiki/source/Harry_Guest.md > Source: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Harry_Guest > Source revision: 1332939400 > License: Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 International (https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0/) {{Short description|British poet (1932–2021)}} thumb|Harry Guest, Exeter, 1973 '''Harry Guest''' (born '''Henry Bayly Guest'''; 6 October 1932 – 20 March 2021) was a British poet born in Wales.{{cite web |title=HarryGUEST |url=https://funeral-notices.co.uk/notice/guest/4935362 |publisher=Funeral-notices |access-date=13 August 2021}} == Life and career == Harry Guest was educated at [Malvern College](/source/Malvern_College) and read Modern Languages at [Trinity Hall, Cambridge](/source/Trinity_Hall%2C_Cambridge). He wrote a thesis on [Mallarmé](/source/St%C3%A9phane_Mallarm%C3%A9) at the [Sorbonne](/source/University_of_Paris). At Trinity Hall he co-edited the poetry magazine ''Chequer'', which continued for eleven issues and published poems by [Thom Gunn](/source/Thom_Gunn), [Anne Stevenson](/source/Anne_Stevenson), [Ted Hughes](/source/Ted_Hughes), and [Sylvia Plath](/source/Sylvia_Plath), though there is no evidence to suggest he met Plath or Hughes.His co-editors for the first issue were [Michael Bakewell](/source/Michael_Bakewell), [Ronald Hayman](/source/Ronald_Hayman), [Karl Miller](/source/Karl_Miller) and [Michael Podro](/source/Michael_Podro); the magazine was later taken over by Malcolm Ballin and Paul McQuial. See ''Chequer'', 1 (1953) and David Miller and Richard Price, ''British Poetry Magazines 1914-2000: A History and Bibliography of Little Magazines'', London: The British Library, 2006, 92. From 1955-66, he taught at [Felsted School](/source/Felsted_School) and [Lancing College](/source/Lancing_College), and then moved to Japan, becoming a lecturer in English at [Yokohama National University](/source/Yokohama_National_University).Edward Lucie-Smith (ed), ''British Poetry since 1945'', Harmondsworth, UK: Penguin, 1970, 363. He returned to England in 1972 and was Head of French at [Exeter School](/source/Exeter_School) until his retirement in 1991.Edward Lucie-Smith (ed), ''British Poetry since 1945'' (revsd edn), Harmondsworth, UK: Penguin, 1985, 233. A selection of his poetry was included in [Penguin Modern Poets](/source/Penguin_Modern_Poets) 16. He was an Honorary Research Fellow at the [University of Exeter](/source/University_of_Exeter) and was awarded an honorary doctorate (LittD) by [Plymouth University](/source/Plymouth_University) in 1998. Apart from his many collections of poetry, he is well known as a translator from the French and Japanese, and has published several novels and non-fiction books including the ''Traveller's Literary Companion to Japan'' (1994) and ''The Artist on the Artist'' (2000). His translations include a selected poems of [Victor Hugo](/source/Victor_Hugo), ''The Distance, The Shadows'' (2002) and ''Post-War Japanese Poetry'' (with Lynn Guest and Kajima Shôzô, 1972). He lived in [Exeter](/source/Exeter), and was married to the historical novelist Lynn Guest, they have two children.[http://www.shearsman.com/pages/books/authors/guestA.html Harry Guest]{{Dead link|date=August 2025 |bot=InternetArchiveBot |fix-attempted=yes }} Shearsman Titles[http://www.anvilpresspoetry.com/authors.asp?id=61 Harry Guest] {{webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20110707151204/http://www.anvilpresspoetry.com/authors.asp?id=61 |date=2011-07-07 }} Anvil Press Poetry[http://www.academi.org/writers-of-wales/i/129672/ The Writers of Wales Database] {{webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20140512232440/http://www.academi.org/writers-of-wales/i/129672/ |date=2014-05-12 }} academi.org thumb|Harry Guest in Topsham, 2011 ==Works== *''A Different Darkness'', London: Outposts, 1964 *''Arrangements'', Northwood, UK: Anvil, 1968 *''The Cutting-Room'', London: Anvil, 1970 *''The Place'', Northamptonshire, UK: Sceptre, 1971 *''Mountain Journal'', Sheffield, UK: Rivelin, 1975 *''A House Against the Night'', London: Anvil, 1976 *''English Poems'', London: Words, 1976 *''Days'', London: Anvil, 1978 *''Elegies'', Durham, UK: Pig, 1980 *''Lost and Found'', London: Anvil, 1983 *''The Emperor of Outer Space'', Durham, UK: Pig, 1983 *''Lost Pictures'', Exeter, UK: Albertine, 1991 *''Coming to Terms'', London: Anvil, 1994 *''So Far'', Exeter, UK: Stride, 1998 *''Versions'', Nether Stowey, UK: Odyssey, 1999 *''A Puzzling Harvest, Collected Poems 1955-2000'', London: Anvil, 2002 *''Time After Time'', Exeter, UK: Albertine, 2005 *''Comparisons & Conversions'', {{ISBN|978-1848610194}} Exeter, UK: Shearsman, 2009 *''Some Times'', London: Anvil, 2010 ==References== {{Reflist}} ==External links== *[https://web.archive.org/web/20140512232440/http://www.academi.org/writers-of-wales/i/129672/ The Writers of Wales Database] *[https://web.archive.org/web/20110707151204/http://www.anvilpresspoetry.com/authors.asp?id=61 Harry Guest] Anvil Press *[http://www.shearsman.com/pages/books/authors/guestA.html Harry Guest] {{Webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20100330021151/http://www.shearsman.com/pages/books/authors/guestA.html |date=2010-03-30 }} Shearsman Titles *Translated Penguin Book - at [http://www.penguinfirsteditions.com/index.php?cat=TranslatorsA-G Penguin First Editions] reference site of early first edition Penguin Books. {{Authority control}} {{DEFAULTSORT:Guest, Harry}} Category:1932 births Category:2021 deaths Category:Academic staff of Yokohama National University Category:Alumni of Trinity Hall, Cambridge Category:English male poets Category:People educated at Malvern College --- Adapted from the Wikipedia article [Harry Guest](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Harry_Guest) by Wikipedia contributors ([contributor history](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Harry_Guest?action=history)). 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