Poetry in the Library: LGBT+ History Month

Join us for Luke Roberts reading Mark Hyatt + Richard Scott. Mark Hyatt was born in South London in 1940. He died in 1972. Illiterate until adulthood and scarcely published in his lifetime. His poems, daring and explicit, funny and tender, are collected in So Much For Life: Selected Poems (2023). As So Mayer recently wrote, Hyatt's posthumous books 'have changed UK and queer literature forever'. Luke Roberts is the author of the poetry collections Home Radio (2021) and Glacial Decoys (2021). His critical writing includes the forthcoming Living in History: Poetry in Britain, 1945-1979 (2024). He is the editor of Mark Hyatt's novel Love, Leda (2023) and co-editor, with Sam Ladkin, of Hyatt's So Much For Life: Selected Poems (2023). He teaches at King's College London. Richard Scott's first book Soho (Faber & Faber, 2018) was a Gay’s the Word book of the year and shortlisted for the T. S. Eliot prize. Recent works include ‘Still Life with Rose’ in Poetry Review and ‘love version of’ in 100 Queer Poems (Vintage). He is a lecturer in creative writing at Goldsmiths, University of London where he also runs a poetry reading group, and he teaches poetry at the Faber Academy.