Book description
The Sense of Movement, Thom Gunn's second collection, was first
published in 1957. 'This book . . . establishes Gunn as one of the few
really interesting poets of his generation and promises greatly for
the future.' Times Literary Supplement
Thom Gunn was born in Gravesend, Kent in 1929. After National
Service and a short time living in Paris, he enrolled at Trinity
College, Cambridge, where he read English..He published his first book
of poems, Fighting Terms, while he was still an undergraduate. In 1954
he moved to San Francisco and held a one-year Fellowship at Stanford
University. He published over thirty books of poetry, including The
Man with Night Sweats, which won the Forward Prize for Poetry in 1992,
and Boss Cupid (2000). Thom Gunn died in 2004.
