The Poetry of Herbert Lomas

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Lomas's poetry is highly thought of in Britain, and he has been a recipient of some of the country's most prestigious awards, including the Cholmondeley Award and the Guinness Prize. His collection Letters in the Dark (1986) was named an Observer book of the year, not a common honor for poetry collections. Rivers Carew wrote in Contemporary Poets that could be said that his [Lomas's] poems have been written for the love of people, of life, and of God. (qtd. in Herbert n.p.) His translations of Finnish poetry have won him honors outside his country, and his own poetry has been translated into several languages. Its mixture of faith in God and skepticism about the world, of exaltation and humor, of sublime and ridiculous have strong appeal for a wide swath of readers of all faiths and none. But his work should be better known in the United States, as, writing in the tradition of Wallace Stevens and T. S. Eliot, he provides a contemporary reflection of the Anglo-Catholic tradition. A comp

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