Thom Gunn

Poet Daljit Nagra revisits the BBC's poetry archive and selects Poet of the Month: Thom Gunn and Three Score and Ten featuring readings by the Anglo American poet.

* Poet of the Month: THOM GUNN

Thorn Gunn talks to Clive Wilmer about his poetry and the work of the American poets Walt Whitman and August Kleinzahler.

Producer: Fiona McLean

First broadcast on BBC Radio 3 i1989

* Three Score & Ten: THOM GUNN

An archive recording from 1993 by poet Thom Gunn, who reads from his anthology The Man with Night Sweats, about the untimely death of his mother.

Presented by Ian McMillan.

Producer: Sharon Sephton

First broadcast on BBC Radio 3 in 2016.

* Plus Daljit reads from his Poetry Extra Book of the Month: Come Here to This Gate, the fourth collection by Rory Waterman.

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