Thom Gunn: A Cool Queer Life Av Michael Nott

<p>¿I write about love, I write about friendship,¿ remarked Thom Gunn: ¿I find that they are absolutely intertwined.¿ These core values permeate his correspondence with friends, family, lovers, and fellow poets, and shed new light on ¿one of...

Thom Gunn (1929-2004) was educated at Cambridge University, and had his first collection of poems, Fighting Terms, published while still an undergraduate. His last collection was Boss Cupid (2000). In this series, a contemporary poet selects and introduces...

The Passages of Joy, published in 1982, saw Thom Gunn writing at the height of his powers. The poems combine personal directness with an apparently effortless technical assurance.

From amateur experiments in scrapbooks and stereographs to contemporary photobook collaborations between leading practitioners, poets and photographers have created an art form that continues to evolve and deserves critical exploration. <i>Photopoetry...