Harry Eyres

For the British diplomat, seeHarry Charles Augustus Eyres.For the Australian rugby league footballer, seeHarry Eyers.

British
Born	1958 (age 65–66)
Education	Eton College Trinity College, Cambridge Barcelona University London School of Economics
Occupation(s)	Journalist, writer and poet.

Harry Eyres(born 1958) is a British journalist, writer and poet

Biography and career

Eyres was educated as a King's Scholar atEton College,where he won theNewcastle Scholarshipin 1975,and atTrinity College, Cambridge,where he studied English language and literature.He holds a Diploma de Estudios Hispanicos fromBarcelona Universityand an MSc in Environmental Assessment and Evaluation from theLondon School of Economics(LSE).

Eyres was a theatre critic and arts writer forThe Timesfrom 1987 to 1993, the wine editor ofHarpers & Queenfrom 1989 to 1996, and the wine columnist forThe Spectatormagazine from 1984 to 1989. He was Poetry Editor ofThe Daily Expressfrom 1996 to 2001. Prior to his writing career, in the early 1980s, he was a junior expert at Christie's wine department, working under wine criticMichael Broadbent.

From 2004 to 2015, Eyres wrote a weekly column forThe Financial Times,titled "Slow Lane", which focused on the creative use of leisure time.

He is also the editor ofLSE Environment,the newsletter of the Centre for Environmental Policy and Governance at the LSE. He teaches London theatre for a consortium of American universities.

Eyres is the author ofHorace and Me: Life Lessons from an Ancient Poet(2013),Beginner’s Guide to Plato’s The Republic(2001),Wine Dynasties of Europe: Personal Portraits of Ten Leading Houses(1990), several books on wine, as well as a volume of poetry, titledHotel Elisio(2001). He is also the co-author of “Johnson’s Brexit Dictionary” (2018).

General references

• "Harry Eyres".www.ft.com.Retrieved2020-08-06.