Quotes

"Gunn was not a confessional poet, but he spilled his guts in a rowdy, funny, filthy, intensely literate correspondance" - Garner, D . New York Times

"I deliberately wrote a poem in my last book where I was suggesting that there are other passions as great as or more important than the passion of sex." -Thom Gunn

"With every sentence, one feels Gunn stepping into the light ... an intimate portrait of Gunn as friend, lover and man. That’s not to say we always get the ‘real’ Gunn."  - McMillan, D. Literary Review

"If death is the most vivid, indelible thing life offers us, Gunn’s writing asks again and again, how do we make the best of both life and death? He did the best he could with what life gave him, and I love him for it." - Als, H. The New Yorker

"Gunn seems to have been one of those rare good writers who is almost completely self-conscious about his own processes and predicaments, and it is perhaps suggestive that many of the most illuminating passages of self-reflection here are written to people who taught literature at universities"- Perry, S. The Times Literary Supplement

"he’s a marvellously warm and witty correspondent, and we get a strong sense of his temperament, his principles and his enthusiasms and aversions" - Gordon, E. The Spectator (UK)

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