The ‘modest’ poet who swapped sub-fusc for sado-masochistic sex games
Michael Nott’s unsanctimonious biography of Thom Gunn, A Cool Queer Life, draws out his complexities and contradictions
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Michael Nott’s unsanctimonious biography of Thom Gunn, A Cool Queer Life, draws out his complexities and contradictions
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