Annal:1993 Lenore Marshall Poetry Prize

The Man With Night Sweats

Thom Gunn

• 1993 Lenore Marshall winner
• Score: 10.43

This volume—a contemporary classic by “one of the most singular and compelling poets in English [of] the past half-century” (Times Literary Supplement)—contains poems written in response to the AIDS crisis. Originally published in 1992, it was Thom Gunn’s first book of verse in ten years.