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Born in 1929 / Died in 2004 / United Kingdom / English

Bibliography

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POETRY

  • Thom Gunn (poetry), Fantasy Press (Oxford, England), 1953.
  • Fighting Terms: A Selection, Fantasy Press (Oxford, England), 1954, revised edition, Faber, 1962, original edition reprinted, Bancroft Press, 1983.
  • The Sense of Movement, Faber (London, England), 1957, University of Chicago Press (Chicago, IL), 1959.
  • My Sad Captains, and Other Poems (also see below), University of Chicago Press (Chicago, IL), 1961.
  • (With Ted Hughes) Selected Poems, Faber (London, England), 1962.
  • A Geography, Stone Wall Press (Iowa City, IA), 1966.
  • Positives, photographs by brother, Ander Gunn, Faber (London, England), 1966, University of Chicago Press (Chicago, IL), 1967.
  • Touch, Faber (London, England), 1967, University of Chicago Press (Chicago, IL), 1968.
  • The Garden of the Gods, Pym-Randall Press (Cambridge, MA), 1968.
  • The Explorers, R. Gilbertson (Crediton, Devon, England), 1969.
  • The Fair in the Woods, Sycamore Press (Oxford, England), 1969.
  • Poems, 1950-1966: A Selection, Faber (London, England), 1969.
  • Sunlight, Albondocani Press (New York, NY), 1969.
  • Last Days at Teddington, Poem-of-the-Month Club (London, England), 1971.
  • Moly (also see below), Faber (London, England), 1971.
  • (With others) Corgi Modern Poets in Focus 5, edited by Dannie Abse, Corgi (London, England), 1971.
  • Poem after Chaucer, Albondocani Press (New York, NY), 1971.
  • Moly [and] My Sad Captains, Farrar, Straus (New York, NY), 1973.
  • Mandrakes, Rainbow Press (London, England), 1973.
  • Songbook, Albondocani Press (New York, NY), 1973.
  • To the Air, David R. Godine (Boston, MA), 1974.
  • Jack Straw's Castle, F. Hallman (New York, NY), 1975, expanded as Jack Straw's Castle and Other Poems, Farrar, Straus (New York, NY), 1976.
  • The Missed Beat, Janus Press (West Burke, VT), 1976.
  • Games of Chance, Abattoir (Omaha, NE), 1979.
  • Selected Poems 1950-1975, Farrar, Straus (New York, NY), 1979.
  • Bally Power Play, Massey Press (Toronto, Ontario, Canada), 1979.
  • Talbot Road, Helikon Press (New York, NY), 1981.
  • The Menace, ManRoot (San Francisco, CA), 1982.
  • The Passages of Joy, Farrar, Straus (New York, NY), 1982.
  • Lament, Doe Press (Champaign, IL), 1985.
  • Sidewalks, Albondocani Press (New York, NY), 1985.
  • The Hurtless Trees, Jordan Davies (New York, NY), 1986.
  • Night Sweats, R. L. Barth (Florence, KY), 1987.
  • Undesirables, Pig Iron Press (Youngstown, OH), 1988.
  • At the Barriers, NADJA (New York, NY), 1989.
  • Death's Door, Red Hydra, 1989.
  • The Man with Night Sweats, Farrar, Straus (New York, NY), 1992.
  • Unsought Intimacies: Poems of 1991, Peter Koch (Berkeley, CA), 1993.
  • Collected Poems, Farrar, Straus (New York, NY), 1994.
  • Boss Cupid, Faber (London, England), 2000.

OTHER

  • (Editor) Poetry from Cambridge 1951-52: A Selection of Verse by Members of the University, Fortune Press (London, England), 1953.
  • (Editor with Ted Hughes) Five American Poets, Faber (London, England), 1963.
  • (Editor and author of introduction) Fulke Greville Brooke, Selected Poems of Fulke Greville, University of Chicago Press (Chicago, IL), 1968.
  • (Editor) Ben Jonson: Poems, Penguin (New York, NY), 1974.
  • The Occasions of Poetry: Essays in Criticism and Autobiography, edited by Clive Wilmer, Farrar, Straus, 1982, expanded edition, North Point Press (San Francisco, CA), 1985.
  • Shelf Life: Essays, Memoirs, and an Interview, University of Michigan Press (Ann Arbor, MI), 1993.
  • (Editor) Ezra Pound, Faber (London, England), 2000.
  • Thom Gunn in Conversation with James Campbell, Between the Lines (London, England), 2000.
  • At the Barriers: On the Poetry of Thom Gunn, edited by Joshua Weiner, University of Chicago Press (Chicago, IL), 2009.

Also author of Games of Chance, 1982. Contributor of memoir to My Cambridge, 1977. Work represented in many anthologies, including: Springtime, edited by G. S. Fraser and I. Fletcher, Peter Owen, 1953, and Mark in Time, edited by R. Johnson and N. Harvey, Glide Publications, 1971. Poetry reviewer, Yale Review, 1958-64, and London Magazine. Contributor to Encounter, New Statesman, Poetry, Times Literary Supplement, and other publications.