Michael Nott

Michael Nott is putting together The Letters of Thom Gunn with Clive Wilmer and August Kleinzahler.

Thom Gunn in New York

Michael Nott, 22 October 2020

ThomGunn spent the summer of 1958 in New York City. ‘It was wonderful, and revelatory as it always is,’ he told his friend Tony White. ‘I learn more about people and myself in NY than anywhere else. I got offered a job in a tough-queer 3rd Avenue bar the day before I left, and if I hadn’t been under contract to Berkeley I’d have accepted it’ (he’d...

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