Thom Gunn: A Cool Queer Life

'The first biography of Thom Gunn, and likely the definitive one. [...] Nott's book is one of the best versions of a gay relationship conducted over this half century.' Colm Tóibín 'Michael Nott's brilliant and necessary new biography Thom Gunn: A Cool Queer Life is a comprehensive study of a major poet's investigations of the paradoxical liberation and constraint of queer desire.' Los Angeles Review of Books '[Nott] has set out here to produce a work sturdy enough to support decades of future commentary on Gunn. He's succeeded-this book is everything you ever wanted to know about Thom Gunn but had not even thought about asking.' New York Times Book Review 'The virtues of Thom Gunn: A Cool Queer Life are many: a total command of Gunn's life; a clear, though hardly idolatrous, affection for its subject; and a true critic's touch.' The Baffler The eagerly awaited, no-holds-barred biography of the great poet: an intellectual maverick, sexual rebel and icon of queer literature. Thom Gunn: