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With a genius for understatement and formal restraint, Gunn wrote some of the most powerful poetry of the AIDS crisis.

This portrait of a sleepy adolescent at breakfast is intensely affectionate – without ever sentimentalising youth

'The Letters of Thom Gunn' is both an intimate portrait of the poet and a window on the development of what would become gay and leather culture, and the rise of the hippies and drug culture.

'The Letters of Thom Gunn' is both an intimate portrait of the poet and a window on the development of what would become gay and leather culture, and the rise of the hippies and drug culture.