RaveArts Fuse\"Nott’s scholarship is extremely impressive: he provides 144 pages of footnotes, attributing his sources to interviews, letters, notebooks, and diary entries. But this is not a dry, academic look at Gunn’s life: the biographer supplies a loving—though at times unflinchingly honest—view of the self-punishing poet. On top of that, we are taken into the artist’s compositional process—drafts and unfinished works are probed insightfully ... Nott has created an illuminating theatrical framework in which to chronicle Thom Gunn’s private life, adding resonance and significance to his beautiful poetry.\
