A beautifully produced collection of Thom Gunn's classic poetry, illuminated by insightful notes.
Thom Gunn was born in Gravesend, Kent in 1929. He published his
first book of poems, Fighting Terms (1954), while he was still an
undergraduate at Cambridge. That same year, he moved to California
and stayed there for the rest of his life, teaching at Berkeley and
living in San Francisco. He published nine books of poetry,
including The Man with Night Sweats, which won the Forward Prize
for Poetry in 1992, and Boss Cupid (2000). Gunn also published a
Collected Poems (1994) and two collections of essays, The Occasions
of Poetry (1982) and Shelf Life (1993). He was awarded many major
prizes and fellowships from the Arts Council of Great Britain, the
Guggenheim Foundation, and the MacArthur Foundation. Thom Gunn died
in 2004.
Clive Wilmer is the author of eight books of poetry, including New
and Collected Poems (2012) and Urban Pastorals (2014). He has
written extensively on Thom Gunn's poetry and edited his first
collection of essays, The Occasions of Poetry (1982). He is
Emeritus Fellow in English at Sidney Sussex College, Cambridge.
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