Eyewear highly recommends The Wolf - A Decade: Poems from 2002-2012. It is a recently published anthology recording the incredible publishing efforts of Britain's finest little magazine of the new century, powerfully edited by James Byrne. It includes poems by an impressive international list of poets, showcasing the always innovative and original editorial brio that makes The Wolf the lone strong voice it is: C.D. Wright, Bei Dao, Peter Redgrove, Adonis, Ilya Kaminsky, Evan Jones, Andrea Brady... fearless, surprising choices, one and all.
THAT HANDSOME MAN A PERSONAL BRIEF REVIEW BY TODD SWIFT I could lie and claim Larkin, Yeats , or Dylan Thomas most excited me as a young poet, or even Pound or FT Prince - but the truth be told, it was Thom Gunn I first and most loved when I was young. Precisely, I fell in love with his first two collections, written under a formalist, Elizabethan ( Fulke Greville mainly), Yvor Winters triad of influences - uniquely fused with an interest in homerotica, pop culture ( Brando, Elvis , motorcycles). His best poem 'On The Move' is oddly presented here without the quote that began it usually - Man, you gotta go - which I loved. Gunn was - and remains - so thrilling, to me at least, because so odd. His elegance, poise, and intelligence is all about display, about surface - but the surface of a panther, who ripples with strength beneath the skin. With Gunn, you dressed to have sex. Or so I thought. Because I was queer (I maintain the right to lay claim to that
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