Edmund Gordon

Sun, sex and acid: Thom Gunn in California

When the celebrated British poet moved to San Francisco in 1954 he wrote ecstatically about his marvellous new life. But was he protesting too much?

Thom Gunn, photographed in San Francisco in 1996. Credit: Chris Felver/Bridgeman Images

  • The Letters of Thom Gunn

    Edited by Michael Nott, August Kleinzahler and Clive Wilmer

    Faber, pp. 734, £40

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