Thomson William "Thom" Gunn (29 August 1929 – 25 April 2004) was an English poet who was praised for his early verses in England, where he was associated...
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The Thom Gunn Award for Gay Poetry is an annual literary award presented by Publishing Triangle to honour works of gay male poetry. First presented in...
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awarded the Lambda Literary Award for "Gay Men's Poetry" in 2005, and the Thom Gunn Award from Publishing Triangle. The 1990 death of his boyfriend influenced...
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literary expression in a poem by Thom Gunn, a young English poet who was highly regarded by British critics in the 1950s. Gunn spent a few months in Rome on...
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the Lambda Literary Award for Gay Poetry and the Publishing Triangle's Thom Gunn Award. His second collection, Trace Evidence: Poems (Tin House, 2023)...
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Kingsley Amis, Donald Davie, D. J. Enright, John Wain, Elizabeth Jennings, Thom Gunn and Robert Conquest. The Movement was quintessentially English in character;...
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Looking for The Gulf Motel, recipient of the Paterson Poetry Prize and the Thom Gunn Award. He has also authored the memoirs For All of Us, One Today: An Inaugural...
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been awarded several fellowships and awards for his work, including the Thom Gunn Award. Hewett earned his Bachelor of Arts degree at Binghamton University...
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modern verse" and later was also taken up by poets Charles Tomlinson and Thom Gunn. Williams referred to the prosody of triadic-line poetry as a "variable...
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flower Outlined the aspect of a soul Whose pure precision was of death. — Thom Gunn Praise to the Lord, the Almighty, the King of creation, O my soul, praise...
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developed his interests in philosophy, literature, and eminent poets such as Thom Gunn. While at King's School, he was awarded several scholastic awards in recognition...
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co-edited The Letters of Thom Gunn (2021), and also edited The Essays of Thom Gunn. Wilmer had been a personal friend of Gunn. The Dwelling-Place (1977)...
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Finalists Announced". Lambda Literary. Retrieved December 30, 2024. "The Thom Gunn Award for Gay Poetry". The Publishing Triangle. Retrieved December 30...
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titles, comprising poems by Sylvia Plath, Ted Hughes, Ruth Fainlight, Thom Gunn, and Seamus Heaney. The works were printed by Daedalus Press in Norfolk...
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former Deputy Prime Minister (2003-2005) Thomson Thom Gunn (1929–2004), English poet Thomas Thom Hartmann (born 1951), American radio host, author,...
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ongoing poetic tradition at length and in creative depth. Davie's friend Thom Gunn also wrote on Hardy and acknowledged his stature and example. Hardy's...
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Pinsky, Colm Toibin, Li-Young Lee and, just before his death in 2004, Thom Gunn. Notable previous long-term faculty include W. S. Di Piero and Denise...
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cancer. His students included the poets Edgar Bowers, Turner Cassity, Thom Gunn, Donald Hall, Philip Levine, Jim McMichael, N. Scott Momaday, Robert Pinsky...
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While in San Francisco, Sacks became a lifelong close friend of poet Thom Gunn, saying he loved his wild imagination, his strict control, and perfect...
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applauded biopic entitled Caravaggio in 1986. Several poems written by Thom Gunn were responses to specific Caravaggio paintings. Caravaggio's baroque...
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The Miracle Mile". FoundSF. Retrieved 2016-12-28. Nott, Michael (2024). Thom Gunn: A Cool Queer Life. Farrar, Straus and Giroux. ISBN 9780374721374. Evans...
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features a foreword by Brown. The book won several prizes, including the Thom Gunn Award. A book about charting one's identity in the world, its poems concern...
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(Allium moly), although the perianth of this species is yellow, not white. Thom Gunn made his poem Moly the title poem of his 1971 collection. In John Lyly's...
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Cantos and T.S. Eliot’s Four Quartets by influential critics, including Thom Gunn and Cyril Connolly, and in the US it was taken up by a younger generation...
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Nominated for several awards, the book won the Publishing Triangle's Thom Gunn Award for Gay Poetry in 2019. Centered around Nguyen's experiences as...
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Poetry 2018 Great Lakes Colleges Association (GLCA) New Writers Award 2018 Thom Gunn Award for Gay Poetry 2019 Pushcart Prize 2019 National Endowment for the...
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all the right people". These include poets such as Allen Ginsberg and Thom Gunn, the last of whom likened the song to W.H. Auden's poem "Miss Gee", and...
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as Jean-Paul Sartre and Nikos Kazantzakis, and discovered talents like Thom Gunn and Laurie Lee. Lehmann edited two anthologies of new writing entitled...
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developmental biologist Ernest Gaines, writer Pedro Greer, physician Thom Gunn, poet and literary critic Ann Hamilton, artist Sokoni Karanja, child and...
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of the Difficult World Mona Van Duyn, Edward Hirsch, Thomas Lux 1993 Thom Gunn The Man with Night Sweats Robert Pinsky, Carol Muske, James Tate 1994...
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