All about: Thom Gunn

Reading: The Hug by Thom Gunn
Thom Gunn (1929-2004) was an English poet. I've read another verse (tamer and hawk) by his hand before. Today I read a simple poem that says something I find lovely. The Hug It was your birthday, we had drunk and dined Half of the night with our old friend Who'd showed us in the end To a ...
Reading: Tamer and Hawk by Thom Gunn
Thom Gunn (1929-2004), another much-honored poet, who started out using iambic pentameter, borne out of an ambition to be the John Donne of the twentieth century, writing about topics such as LSD, Hell's angels or queer culture. Later, he wrote no less heart-felt poetry in freer forms. For him, "Writing poetry has in fact become ...