Herbert (Howard) Sergeant MBE (1914–1987) was a poet and editor from Hull and the publisher of Britain's oldest independent poetry magazine Outposts.
[2] Sergeant was the subject of a doctoral thesis by Bruce Meyer of McMaster University.
[3] The Scotsman obituary of Muriel Spark, referring to her autobiography Curriculum Vitae, stated: The title was precise.
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.