Thom Gunn

In 1965 KN was included in a 24-page poetry anthology, Moments of Truth, published by Roy Lewis at the Keepsake Press at Richmond in Surrey, along with nineteen other poets including Thom Gunn

This was published with endorsements by younger poets: Ruth Pitter is the most modest of poets, slipping us her riches as if they were everyday currency from Thom Gunn , and clearly a major poet...

Patrick Magee , Harvey Hall , Stevie Smith , Hugh Dickson , and Basil Jones were the other readers for the project. The poets from whose work they read included W. B. Yeats , D. H. Lawrence

In the Times Literary SupplementPeter Redgrove welcomed EJ as a good rather than a great poet, lyrical, metaphysical, and psychologically penetrating, a very accomplished writer of short pieces. Other...

She was six times in several decades short-listed for the Booker Prize: for instance, for The Dressmaker (September 1973), An Awfully Big Adventure (1989), and According to Queeney. She laid the wreath and gave...

For this column she reviewed authors such as Sylvia Plath , D. H. Lawrence , Thom Gunn , Ted Hughes , Cesare Pavese , Eugene Ionesco , Simone de Beauvoir , Jorge Luis Borges ,...