John Harold Hewitt
ABOUT JOHN HAROLD HEWITT
Northern Irish poet and political activist known for The Day of the Corncrake, Out of My Time, and other literary works. He worked for the Belfast Museum & Art Gallery for nearly three decades.
He graduated from Queen's University of Belfast in 1930. His early poems include "Conacre" and
"No Rebel Word."
His poem, "Neither an Elegy nor a Manifesto," was read at a ceremony in honor of the victims of a 1998 Northern Irish car bombing.
He married Ruby Black, a fellow Socialist, in 1934.
His early work was influenced by the poetry of William Butler Yeats .
