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Harry Guest was born in Penarth in 1932. He read Modern languages at Cambridge before beginning a career as a teacher in schools and universities in Japan and England. With his wife, Lynn Guest, a his-torical novelist, he now lives in Exeter. His Collected Poems, A Puzzling Harvest, was published by Anvil in 2002. A further collection, Some Time, appeared in 2010, while Shearsman also published a mixed volume of translations and original work, Comparisons & Conversions, in 2008. His many other translations include a selected poems of Victor Hugo, The Distance, The Shadows (2002) and the Penguin volume, Post-War Japanese Poetry (with Lynn Guest and Kajima Shozo, 1972).

• Clement Marot About My SelfMellin de Saint-GelaisSonnetMaurice Scevefrom Delie, dizain no. CCXVIMaurice Scevedizain no. CCLVIIMaurice SceveTo the ReaderOlivier de Magny "Hola Charon ...Joachim du Bellay Sonnet LXXVI from L'Olive16Philippe Desportes Sonnet LI from Les Amours d'HippolytePhilippe Desportes "Love can at the same moment goad and check"Theophile Gautier Preface to Emaux et CameesStephane Mallarme Breeze off the SeaStephane Mallarme RenewalStephane Mallarme AnguishPaul Verlaine Monsieur BourgeoisArthur RimbaudAh seasons Ah castlesArthur RimbaudThe Flags of MayArthur RimbaudSeascapeRainer Maria Rilke EndymionRainer Maria RilkeRainer Maria Rilke People by NightRainer Maria Rilke The Mount of OlivesRainer Maria Rilke The Lay of the Love and Death of Cornet Christoph Rilke von LangenauMarie Luise Kaschnitz SpiralsMarie Luise Kaschnitz UnsaidRolf Haufs Peppino PortiereRolf-Dieter Brinkmann Self-Portrait in the SupermarketRolf-Dieter Brinkmann Even More ShadowsJean Cassou 33 Sonnets composed in secret Notes to the 33 SonnetsAnne Mounic "the duel now more one-sided than before"Anne Mounic "arresting sleights of hand"Anne Mounic "infinity, conceivable florescence"Daniele Serafini A Distant VeniceRyota HaikuHarry Guest Ryota's Twilit HaikuHarry Guest Six Word-SonnetsHarry Guest Quantite InconnueNotes on the Poets104