Sidney Poet and English Fellow, Clive Wilmer, celebrates new book with a public talk on Thom Gunn

Thom Gunn, who died in 2004, was one of the finest poets of the late 20th century. Clive, who is a Fellow of Sidney Sussex, was a friend of Gunn’s for nearly 40 years, and this occasion will celebrate the publication of a new and annotated Selected Poems of Thom Gunn, edited by Clive Wilmer and published by Faber & Faber.

The event, Thom Gunn, Revived and Remembered, will take place in the Milstein Room at the University Library, Cambridge at 5.30-6.45pm on Thursday 26 October 2017. There will be a talk, readings, and a display of Gunn's correspondence. There will be refreshments available from 5.00pm, and Clive's talk will start at 5.30pm.

During the period 23 October – 10 November, there will be a small exhibition of Gunn publications and manuscripts, curated by Clive Wilmer, in the UL Entrance Hall; and on 26 October a selection from Gunn’s correspondence with Wilmer will be displayed in the Milstein Room.