So Much for Life: Selected Poems - Paperback

So Much for Life: Selected Poems - Paperback

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So Much for Life: Selected Poems - Paperback

So Much for Life: Selected Poems - Paperback

$22.34
$22.34

by Mark Hyatt (Author), 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.

Author Biography

Mark Hyatt (1940-1972) lived at the center and the fringes of the bohemian underground in 1960s Britain. In the half-century since his death, his work has been known almost exclusively by word-of-mouth. Drawing on a full range of archival sources, So Much For Life is the first comprehensive edition of his poems.

Sam Ladkin is Senior Lecturer at the University of Sussex.

Luke Roberts is a poet and writer. He works at King's College London.
Number of Pages: 208
Dimensions: 0.7 x 8.4 x 5.4 IN
Publication Date: June 06, 2023

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