So Much for Life Selected Poems

This is a new book. Condition: Brand New.

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.

Book details and technical specifications

Format: Paperback / softback
ISBN13: 9781643621784
Published: July 2023

Number of pages: 208
Width: 152 mm
Height: 228 mm
Depth: not specified

Publisher: Nightboat Books