So Much for Life by Mark Hyatt Paperback Book 9781643621784

A long awaited collection of poems by Mark Hyatt one of the great lost writers of midcentury British poetryamp10amp10Scarcely published in his lifetime Hyatts work amp173survives 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 itamp8217s tempting to read Hyatt according to the familiar script of the doomed poet resounding with loneliness and isolation But his poetryquothot and tenderquot funny and sadamp8212tells another story of love liberatory commitment and desire