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Short Attention Span
Paperback
ISBN13: 9781848616875
Publisher: Shearsman Books
Published: Jul 5 2019
Pages: 32
Weight: 0.12
Height: 0.08 Width: 5.50 Depth: 8.50
Language: English
Harry Guest was born in Penarth in 1932. He read Modern Languages at Cambridge and wrote a thesis on Mallarmé 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.
Throughout his career, Harry has written occasional poems, haiku, squibs and jests, and this little collection brings together a range of them that will delight his readers.
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