`Lost and Found’ contains Harry Guest’s work written during 1975-1982. `At their best Harry Guest’s poems are outstanding for their precise imagery and expression of a refinement of sensibility towards atmosphere and emotion’, John Cotton wrote in `Priapus’ of his early poems. This is true of the more recent work collected here, which includes poems evoking landscapes and history, poems of love, friendship, `memory and desire’. `Lost and Found’ concludes with the powerful sequence of `Elegies’; reviewing the Pig Press edition of these in the `TLS’, Anne Stevenson wrote, `They take place in an autumnal English landscape unthreatened by anything worse than natural age and death. …The air of loving weariness and fin-de-siècle calm which Guest manages to convey in these meditations reinforces rather than undermines a philosophy of mystical resignation. Somehow everything in the end will be well: “What the narrow-minded / conceive of as reality is only the first step. / We have lived elsewhere.” ’

With Anvil Harry Guest has published three earlier collections of poetry, a short novel `Days' and a translation of selected poems by Victor Hugo, `The Distance, The Shadows'. `A Puzzling Harvest: Collected Poems’, published in 2002, marked his 70th birthday. He edited and translated Penguin's `Post-War Japanese Poetry'. His recent books include a novel `Lost Pictures' and `Traveller's Literary Companion to Japan'. He was awarded a Hawthornden Fellowship in 1993, and was appointed Honorary Research Fellow at the University of Exeter in 1994.