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Herbert Lomas

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born

February 07, 1924 in Todmorden, The United Kingdom

gender

male

genre

Poetry

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Herbert Lomas was born in Todmorden in the Pennines.

He served with the infantry 1943-46, including two years with the Royal Garhwal Rifles on the North West Frontier of India, and his 'Called to the Colours' in A Useless Passion is a record of that.

He graduated with first-class honours and an MA from Liverpool University and is a former Senior Lecturer at the University of Helsinki and Principal Lecturer at the University of London. He was a regular critic for Alan Ross's The London Magazine and Ambit for thirty years, has contributed to The Hudson Review, The Spectator and other journals and is a regular translator for the quarterly Books from Finland.

His Letters in the Dark was an Observer book of the year, and he has received Guinness, A...more

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Books by Herbert Lomas

Average rating: 3.52 · 798 ratings · 168 reviews · 13 distinct works

	Contemporary Finnish Poetry 5.00 avg rating — 1 rating	My rating:
	Letters in the Dark 4.00 avg rating — 1 rating	My rating:
	A Casual Knack Of Living: Collected Poems 0.00 avg rating — 0 ratings — published 2009	My rating:
	Trouble 0.00 avg rating — 0 ratings — published 1992 — 2 editions	My rating:
	A Useless Passion 0.00 avg rating — 0 ratings — published 1998	My rating:
	Selected Poems 0.00 avg rating — 0 ratings — published 1995	My rating:
	Wings of Hope & Daring: Selected Poems 0.00 avg rating — 0 ratings — published 1992	My rating:
	The vale of Todmorden 0.00 avg rating — 0 ratings — published 2004	My rating:
	Public Footpath 0.00 avg rating — 0 ratings	My rating:
	Fire In The Garden 0.00 avg rating — 0 ratings	My rating: