Mark Hyatt

Mark Hyatt was born in South London in 1940. In recent years, there has been renewed attention to Hyatt's work. His appearance in the influential anthology Children of Albion: Poetry of the Underground in Britain (1969) led to a growing reputation among the poets of the so-called British Poetry Revival. Hyatt killed himself in 1972, leaving behind almost 2000 pages of manuscript material. In the years following his death, his work was published in three chapbooks and circulated among a small...See more

Mark Hyatt was born in South London in 1940. In recent years, there has been renewed attention to Hyatt's work. His appearance in the influential anthology Children of Albion: Poetry of the Underground in Britain (1969) led to a growing reputation among the poets of the so-called British Poetry Revival. Hyatt killed himself in 1972, leaving behind almost 2000 pages of manuscript material. In the years following his death, his work was published in three chapbooks and circulated among a small but devoted group of readers. His was posthumously included in the ground-breaking Not Love Alone: A Modern Gay Anthology (1985). His only known novel, Love, Leda (Peninsula Press 2023, Nightboat Books 2024) is considered an important document of queer, working-class life and a portrait of 1960s Soho in London. So Much For Life , a collection of Hyatt's poems coedited by Luke Roberts and Sam Ladkin, was published by Nightboat Books in 2023. See less