Herbert Lomas

Herbert Lomas (7 February 1924 – 9 September 2011) was a British poet and translator. He served in the infantry from 1943 to 1946). 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. 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.

Awards Guinness Poetry Competition 1982 Cholmondeley Award Knight, First Class, of the Order of the White Rose of Finland

Works

Poetry Chimpanzees are blameless creatures, Mandarin Books, 1969 Who needs Money?, Blond and Briggs, 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, A Useless Passion London Magazine Editions, 1999 The Vale of Todmorden Arc Publications, 2003, A Casual Knack of Living – Collected Poems Arc Publications, 2009,

Translations Territorial Song, London Magazine Editions, 1981 Contemporary Finnish Poetry, Bloodaxe Books, 1991, 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,