Not in Reilly.

signed presentation copy includes his war poems

from his webpage


Herbert Lomas, poet, translator and critic, was born in the Pennines, served with the infantry 1943-46, including two years with the Royal Garhwal Rifles on the North West Frontier of India, and graduated with first-class honours and an MA from Liverpool University. His Letters in the Dark was an Observer book of the year, and he has received Guinness, Arvon and Cholmondely awards. His Contemporary Finnish Poetry won the Poetry Society’s 1991 biennial translation award, he is a member of the Finnish Academy, and he was made Knight First Class, Order of the White Rose of Finland ‘for his services to Finnish Literature’. Of his ten books of poetry only A Useless Passion and The Vale of Todmorden are still in print. A former Senior Lecturer at the University of Helsinki, and Principal Lecturer at the University of London, he lives in Aldeburgh, Suffolk.