So Much for Life - Selected Poems
Author(s): Mark Hyatt; Sam Ladkin (Editor); Luke Roberts (Editor)
A long awaited collection of poems by Mark Hyatt, one of the great lost writers of mid-century British poetry.
Scarcely published in his lifetime, Hyatt's work -survives thanks to the intervention of poets and friends who saved his manuscripts and kept his poems in circulation. Queer in the decades before Gay Liberation; Romani; incarcerated in prisons and asylums; illiterate into adulthood: it's tempting to read Hyatt according to the familiar script of the doomed poet, resounding with loneliness and isolation. But his poetry--"hot and tender," funny and sad--tells another story: of love, liberatory commitment, and desire.
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- : Nightboat Books
- : Nightboat Books
- : 0.33
- : 06 June 2023
- : .66 Inches X 6 Inches X 9 Inches
- : books
Special Fields
- : Mark Hyatt; Sam Ladkin (Editor); Luke Roberts (Editor)
- : Paperback
- : 821.914
- : 208