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So Much for Life : Selected Poems, Paperback / softback Book

So Much for Life : Selected Poems Paperback / softback

Edited by Sam Ladkin, Luke Roberts

Paperback / softback

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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.

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