So Much for Life: Selected Poems by Hyatt, Mark

So Much for Life: Selected Poems (Paperback) (ISBN-13: 9781643621784)

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Format: Paperback
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So Much for Life: Selected Poems by Hyatt, Mark

So Much for Life: Selected Poems

$19.95
So Much for Life: Selected Poems by Hyatt, Mark

So Much for Life: Selected Poems

$19.95
Format: Paperback
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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: Mark Hyatt
ISBN-10: 1643621785
ISBN-13: 9781643621784
Publisher: Nightboat Books
Language: English
Published: 06/06/2023
Pages: 208
Format: Paperback
Weight: 0.65lbs
Size: 8.40h x 5.40w x 0.70d
By Mark Hyatt
By Mark Hyatt
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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.

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