Thom Gunn and the Largest Gathering of the Decade
Alan Sinfield, 13 February 1992
“... and hear what I’ve actually written, to acknowledge what I am.’ In ‘The Redress of Poetry’ Seamus Heaney has recognised, among writers situated on the margins of English culture, a tendency ‘to refuse the exclusive civilities of established canonical English literature’. They want to ‘give voice and retaliatory presence to suppressed ... ”