Comparisons considers the disparities between memory and expectation as well as the alteration in events separated by the gap of years-since, sometimes when we journey, we are "hoping by space to leave / the faults of time behind." Conversions contains the poetry translated since Versions appeared from Odyssey in 1999. Harry Guest regards the effort of translation as a vital complement to creative writing, providing not only a technical challenge but also the strange effect of inhabiting another's consciousness for a while.

Otherlands brings together a compendium of Harry Guest's translations from French, German, Italian and Japanese, although the largest representations are those of Cassou and Rilke, and runs from poets of the 16th century to our contemporaries.

Harry Guest's remarkable sequence of Elegies were first published as a chapbook in 1980 by Pig Press in Durham, and were later collected in Lost and Found a large collection of the author's work in 1983. here we take the chance to return the poems to their original chapbook environment, convinced that the world still needs work like this. Still available in the author's Anvil collected poems, A Puzzling Harvest, they benefit from being able to breathe more easily in their original form...