“Thom Gunn”

Reading August Kleinzahler’s selection of Thom Gunn’s poetry (in Faber’s ‘Poet-to-Poet’ series) I confessed I really struggled – not with the selection made, but with the source material. It wasn’t just that I felt the poems hadn’t travelled well across the years (the selection covers 1954-2000), nor perhaps any translation from California to the UK, … Continue reading “Thom Gunn” →