So Much for Life English built from the choices we

built from the choices we make now - how we might learn our own cures and 'go where there is love'

trefzeker en liefdevol weergegeven

Absence and approach

Bird language that flies to places I’ve never been

These poems shunt a reader between the political and personal via unique

So Much for Life English built from the choices weMark Hyatt (ed. Sam Ladkin & Luke Roberts) Scarcely published in his lifetime, Hyatts 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: its tempting to read Hyatt according to the familiar script of the doomed poet, resounding with loneliness and isolation. But his