The Man With Night Sweats by Thom Gunn

The Man With Night Sweats by Thom GunnThom Gunn's The Man with Night Sweats shows him writing at the height of his powers, equally in command of classical forms and of looser, more colloquial measures, and ready to address a wide range of themes, both intimate and social. The book ends with a set of poems about the deaths of friends from AIDS. With their unflinching directness, compassion and grace, they are among the most moving statements yet to have been provoked by the disease.

is busy attempting to keep her mother from discovering her maybe-boyfriend and to keep everyone in the dark about her encounter with Milkman

through fifty of the most surprising and often less well-known places in the world

and is now published in the UK for the very first time

But where is he going

Only he knows the lengths to which he has gone to get the life he so desired

I loved this' KIRSTY LOGAN

who died in infancy

This heart-warming

when in fact the addiction to profit and growth is digging us in deeper every day

full of wild animals

these verses give voice to our deepest

And while Gwendolen loses everything and becomes trapped in an oppressive marriage