
So Much for Life : Selected Poems
by Mark Hyatt
Title:
So Much for Life : Selected Poems
Author:
Mark Hyatt
Format:
Paperback
Number of pages:
208 pages, Illustrations
Publisher:
Nightboat Books
ISBN-13:
9781643621784
EAN:
9781643621784
Classifications:
Poetry
Weight (g):
426
Dimensions (mm):
139 x 216 x 18
Publication Country:
United Kingdom
Language:
English
Condition:
New
Description
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.











