206:(January 2017), John Lucas wrote: 'The late, great Peter Porter once observed that Gregory Woods was probably the most accomplished of contemporary formalist poets, which, if you pause to think where such praise comes from, is not merely a copper-bottomed endorsement but outstandingly generous. And yet it’s no more than Woods deserves. Look on his work, ye formalists, and despair ... is work invites comparison with the best of Robert Graves ... I can't think of any poet who so adroitly manages what is often tricky, even recalcitrant, material.'
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they constitute a handbook of desire; separately, each is an exquisite insight, rapid and rich. The predominant tone is of a kind of delighted astonishment that mere sensuality can be so meaningful.' Woods' subject matter is by no means limited to gay themes and his work is characterised by classical and literary allusions, a dry scepticism and waspish humour. In the
427:(2016) includes essays on mourning in gay culture, catalogue-shopping, desert-island narratives, lesbian and gay holiday brochures, cartoons about AIDS in the French gay press, British gay TV programmes in the 1980s and 1990s, music in gay films, Italian camp, AIDS movies, the Beirut hostage memoirs, and the common journalistic cliché of the last taboo.
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