Thom Gunn (1929-2004)
‘I have been reading my contemporaries’
This is the first year since I started school when I have not been obliged to read anything.
So I have been catching up on what is considered admirable in Contemporary poetry. I have read award winning books, and books by famous poets, and that odd thing, the popular poetry book.
And while some of it is excellent, this poem has been running through my head.