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“Gunn analyzed the inherited poetic tradition of lament.”
“These were poems that dealt directly with the execution of friends and associates of Wyatt’s, including Anne Boleyn.”
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“Of the twenty words in these four lines, seventeen have only one syllable; only two—”prospered” and “residue”—derive from the Latin.”
“Introduction copyright © 2024 by Colm Tóibín.”
“In his comments on speech in poetry, Yeats wrote: “All that is personal soon rots, it must be packed in ice or salt.” In “The Man with Night Sweats,” Gunn plays the personal voice against the ice and salt of a heightened, textured sound.”
“Copyright © 2026 by Thom Gunn.”
“Gunn’s way of watching and noticing with the full weight of pure sympathy makes its way, with chiseled care, into a reticent eloquence.”
“The elegiac poems in The Man with Night Sweats are sharper, plainer, starker than Gunn’s early formal poems.”
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“Literary Hub » A Reticent Eloquence: Colm Tóibín on the Poetry of Thom Gunn Literary Hub Craft and Criticism Literary Criticism Craft and Advice In Conversation On Translation Fiction and Poetry Short Story From the Novel Poem News and Culture History Science Politics Biography Memoir Food Technology Bookstores and Libraries Film and TV Travel Music Art and Photography The Hub Style Design Sports Become A Member Lit Hub Radio The Lit Hub Podcast Awakeners Fiction/Non/Fiction The Critic and Her Publics Windham-Campbell Prizes Podcast Memoir Nation Beyond the Page First Draft: A Dialogue on Writing Thresholds The Cosmic Library Culture Schlock Reading Lists Book Marks Best Reviewed Books CrimeReads True Crime The Daily Thrill Log In Craft and Criticism Fiction and Poetry News and Culture Lit Hub Radio Reading Lists Book Marks CrimeReads Log In A Reticent Eloquence: Colm Tóibín on the Poetry of Thom Gunn “He is ensuring that what he feels and what he thinks are secondary to the subject, the person who is dead or dying.” Via Farrar, Straus and Giroux Colm Tóibín September 30, 2026 In August 1991, in a review of a new anthology of sixteenth-century poetry, Thom Gunn noted two poems by Sir Thomas Wyatt.”
“They even admit an awkwardness at times, which was something Gunn admired in some poems by Thomas Hardy.”
“The fourth stanza of the shorter one reads: Article continues after advertisement The bell tower showed me such sight That in my head sticks day and night.”
“These are ways of memorializing not merely dead friends but often also their long days of dying in a time when AIDS was a death sentence.”
“These poems deal with ideas of strength and weakness; they dramatize the body itself, as though it were a country in revolt that was once a place of ease or even ecstasy.”
“I wake up cold, I who Prospered through dreams of heat Wake to their residue, Sweat, and a clinging sheet.”
“Colm Toibin Farrar Straus and Giroux Macmillan poetry The Man With Night Sweats: Poems Thom Gunn Colm Tóibín Colm Tóibín is the author of nine novels, including The Blackwater Lightship; The Master , winner of the Los Angeles Times Book Prize; Brooklyn , winner of the Costa Book Award; The Testament of Mary ; and Nora Webster , as well as two story collections.”
“Rather, we see here and in other essays how alert Gunn was to the style and syntax of English poems of lament, the strategies of control and containment as much as the scrupulous enactment in the diction itself and in the prosody of wavering levels of dark and complex feeling.”
“As he creates his quatrains and couplets, he is not merely feeling or thinking, but he is ensuring that what he feels and what he thinks are secondary to the subject, the person who is dead or dying, the one on whom the force of the poem must concentrate.”
“Published by Farrar, Straus, and Giroux, September 2026.”