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“We tend to put poems into factions. And it restricts our reading.”
 
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Name:   Thom Gunn
 
Nationality:   British
 
Date of Birth:   Aug 29, 1929
 
Date of Death:   Apr 25,  2004
 
Profession:   Poet
 
 
 
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When I first started to write, I was aware of being queer, but I didn't write about it. Queer poems would probably not have been accepted by the editors I sent them to.
 
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