THOM GUNN: A COOL QUEER LIFE

Winner of the Hatchards & Biographers Club First Biography Prize With this meticulously researched biography we don t so much move closer as move in with Gunn and shadow him through his life Gunn s life is chronicled beautifully here Andrew McMillan Literary Review A consummately researched intelligent and sympathetic biography and which matters most he s a very good reader of the poems Sam Leith Guardian A fine frank biography Peter Conrad Observer Admirably unsentimental allowing all Gunn s complexities and contradictions to emerge unvarnished the greatness of his poetry endures Daily Telegraph The first biography of Thom Gunn and likely the definitive one Nott s book is one of the best versions of a gay relationship conducted over this half century Colm Toibin Nott has set out here to produce a work sturdy enough to support decades of future commentary on Gunn He s succeeded this book is everything you ever wanted to know about Thom Gunn but had not even thought about asking New York Times Book Review The eagerly awaited no holds barred biography of the great poet an intellectual maverick sexual rebel and icon of queer literature Thom Gunn A Cool Queer Life is a landmark study of one of England s and