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Name
  
Howard Sergeant

Role
  
Poet

Died
  
1987


Howard Sergeant The Islands by Howard Sergeant Poetry Magazine

Books
  
The Swinging Rainbow: Poems for the Young

Herbert (Howard) Sergeant MBE (1914–1987) was a poet and editor from Hull and the publisher of Britain's oldest independent poetry magazine Outposts. He was appointed MBE in 1978 for services to literature.

Howard Sergeant Selected Poems by Howard Sergeant AbeBooks

He edited nearly 60 anthologies of contemporary poetry and was himself a poet of considerable talent. The Sergeant archive was purchased by Hull University from his widow, Jean Sergeant, in 1998 and provides extensive coverage of the full range of his literary work. Sergeant was the subject of a doctoral thesis by Bruce Meyer of McMaster University.

The Scotsman obituary of Muriel Spark, referring to her autobiography Curriculum Vitae, stated:

The title was precise. A CV is an impersonal account of one's career suggesting progress from strength to strength. It now seems clear that she did love with passion one of the boyfriends mentioned: the poet, Howard Sergeant. Without passion but with great loyalty, she also loved the man whose misinformation had prompted Spark's desire to set the record straight: Derek Stanford. She had hoped, in turn, to marry both men, and both had deserted her.

- The Scotsman

He married Jean Crabtree in 1954. She survived him with a son and three daughters.

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