So Much for Life: Selected Poems

By Mark Hyatt

Book Overview

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.

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1643621785
• ISBN13: 9781643621784
• Release Date: June 2023
• Publisher: Nightboat Books
• Length: 208 Pages
• Weight: 0.65 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.7" x 5.4" x 8.4"