Herbert Lomas (poet)

Herbert Lomas (7 February 1924 – 9 September 2011) was a British poet and translator. He served in the infantry from 1943 to 1946).^[1] He then graduated from University of Liverpool, and taught at the University of Helsinki and Borough Road College. Lomas was a "prolific translator" from Finnish.^[2][3] In Finland, Lomas was married to Anna-Liisa Partanen (née Aatila) from 28 July 1956 to 29 May 1968. They had no children together but Lomas was stepfather to Anna-Liisa's four children. Later, Lomas married Mary Marshall Phelps on 29 June 1968; they had one son and one daughter.^[4]

Awards

• Guinness Poetry Competition
• 1982 Cholmondeley Award
• Knight of the Order of the White Rose of Finland

Works

Poetry

• Chimpanzees are blameless creatures, Mandarin Books, 1969
• Who needs Money?, 1972
• Private and confidential, London Magazine Editions, 1974
• Public Footpath, Anvil Press, 1981
• Fire in the garden Oxford University Press, 1984
• Letters in the Dark Oxford University Press, 1986
• Trouble Sinclair-Stevenson, 1992
• Selected Poems Sinclair-Stevenson, 1995, ISBN 978-1-85619-613-0
• A Useless Passion London Magazine Editions, 1999
• The Vale of Todmorden Arc Publications, 2003, ISBN 978-1-900072-81-6
• A Casual Knack of Living - Collected Poems Arc Publications, 2009, ISBN 978-1-906570-41-5

Translations

• Territorial Song, London Magazine Editions, 1981
• Contemporary Finnish Poetry, Bloodaxe Books, 1991, ISBN 978-1-85224-147-6
• Fugue by Kai Nieminen. Musta Taide, Helsinki, 1992
• Wings of Hope and Daring, 1992
• Wings of the Fingertips are Opening by Leena Krohn. Musta Taide, Helsinki, 1993
• The Black and the Red by Ilpo Tiihonen. Making Waves, 1993
• Narcissus in Winter by Risto Ahti, Making Waves, 1994
• The Year of the Hare by Arto Paasilinna. Peter Owen, 1995
• Two Sequences for Kuhmo by Lauri Otonkoski & Kuhmon Kamarimusikin. Kannatusyhdistys RY, 1994
• Eeva-Liisa Manner: Selected Poems, Making Waves, 1997
• Three Finnish Poets, London Magazine Editions, 1999
• A Tenant Here: Selected Poems of Pentti Holappa. Dedalus Press, 1999
• Gaia, a Musical for Children by Ilpo Tiihonen. Suomen Kansallisteatteri, 2000
• Troll: a love story by Johanna Sinisalo. Grove Press, 2004, ISBN 978-0-8021-4129-3

References

1. Profile of Herbert Lomas
2. Olive Classe (2000). Encyclopedia of literary translation into English. Taylor & Francis. ISBN 978-1-884964-36-7.
4. Info re marriage and children

External links

• "Author's website"