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The Latest Breaking News from Thom Gunn

Clive Wilmer obituary

Poet and scholar who promoted the work of John Ruskin and edited a selection of Thom Gunn’s essays

The Guardian - UK

Andrew McMillan: ‘As an atheist, the poetry of Mary Oliver is the closest I come to prayer’

The poet on his early love of horror and the transformative power of Thom Gunn

The Guardian - UK

Five writers on the five books they’d give for Christmas

BOOKS: The Independent’s writers look back on the literary year and select the very best books to gift your loved ones this festive season

The Independent UK

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Letters by Oliver Sacks review – science, sex and motorcycles

The kaleidoscopic world and polymathic interests of a great neurologist brought to life in his correspondence

The Guardian - UK

Thom Gunn by Michael Nott review – sex, drugs and San Francisco

A sensitive account of the poet’s wild life on the West Coast

The Guardian - UK

Thom Gunn: A Cool Queer Life by Michael Nott review – the poet laureate of Haight-Ashbury

The San Francisco poet’s work is richly illuminated by this detailed account of his early traumas, dread of ‘deep emotion’ and addiction to casual sex

The Guardian - UK

Poem of the week: Slow Waker by Thom Gunn

This portrait of a sleepy adolescent at breakfast is intensely affectionate – without ever sentimentalising youth

The Guardian - UK

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