Published 2020. Paperback, 98pp, 8.5 x 5.5ins, £10.95 / $18
ISBN 9781848617261 [Download a sample PDF from this book here.]
Last Harvest brings together poems of place, poems on religion, poems on family and friendships, and poems that rebel against the passing of the years.
[…]
enough however here for mysteries,
times to get lost on, found again,
a different beauty, wilder, spread, bare and
always the past put there in stone to stay
“Guest has a way of making so much of what he writes read as though it is a stream of consciousness, fresh and idiosyncratic. He is an observer, a reporter who allows the reader the space to interpret – nothing is crammed down the throat – it can simply be read or, for the more adventurous, delved into to uncover the layers of meaning.” —John Mingay, Stride (on Some Times )
“The publication of Harry Guest’s Collected Poems ( A Puzzling Harvest , 2002) was something of a revelation … [It] revealed that he had gone on developing, experimenting with forms, shunning popularity, performing very little, but continuing to search – in civilised cadences, with wit and genial authority – for a moral and spiritual centre.” —John Greening, Times Literary Supplement
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