# Howard Sergeant

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**Herbert (Howard) Sergeant** [MBE](/source/Member_of_the_Most_Excellent_Order_of_the_British_Empire) (1914–1987) was a poet and editor from [Hull](/source/Kingston_upon_Hull) and the publisher of Britain's oldest independent [poetry](/source/Poetry) magazine *Outposts*.[1] He was appointed MBE in 1978 for services to literature.

He edited nearly 60 [anthologies](/source/Anthology) of contemporary poetry and was himself a poet of considerable talent. The Sergeant archive was deposited with [Hull University](/source/Hull_University) by his widow, Jean Sergeant, in 1998 and provides extensive coverage of the full range of his literary work.[2] Sergeant was the subject of a [doctoral thesis](/source/Doctoral_thesis) by [Bruce Meyer](/source/Bruce_Meyer) of [McMaster University](/source/McMaster_University).[3]

*[The Scotsman](/source/The_Scotsman)* obituary of [Muriel Spark](/source/Muriel_Spark), referring to her [autobiography](/source/Autobiography) *Curriculum Vitae*, stated:

The title was precise. A CV is an impersonal account of one's career suggesting progress from strength to strength. It now seems clear that she did love with passion one of the boyfriends mentioned: the poet, Howard Sergeant. Without passion but with great loyalty, she also loved the man whose misinformation had prompted Spark's desire to set the record straight: [Derek Stanford](/source/Derek_Stanford_(writer)). She had hoped, in turn, to marry both men, and both had deserted her.

- *The Scotsman*[4]

He married Jean Crabtree in 1954. She survived him with a son and three daughters.

## References

1. Sargeant, Howard. *Outposts:100 not out*, in *The Private Library* Winter 1973, published by the [Private Libraries Association](/source/Private_Libraries_Association)

1. ["Modern English literature and drama"](https://web.archive.org/web/20070929133132/http://www.hull.ac.uk/arc/collection/literarymanuscripts/sergeant.html). *www.hull.ac.uk*. Archived from [the original](http://www.hull.ac.uk/arc/collection/literarymanuscripts/sergeant.html) on 2007-09-29.

1. [http://www.library.utoronto.ca/canpoetry/meyer/bio.html](http://www.library.utoronto.ca/canpoetry/meyer/bio.html) [Archived](https://web.archive.org/web/20070209050636/http://www.library.utoronto.ca/canpoetry/meyer/bio.html) 9 February 2007 at the Wayback Machine "Sergeant of Outposts: One Editor's Role in Post-World War Two British Poetry"

1. ["News | the Scotsman"](http://news.scotsman.com/obituaries.cfm?id=579612006)

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