Gregory Woods is the leading British critic and historian of gay literature. He has published five previous Carcanet poetry collections, the first being "We Have The Melon" (1992). Ten years in the making, "Records of an Incitement to Silence" revisi...

In a hugely ambitious study which crosses continents, languages, and almost a century, Gregory Woods identifies the ways in which homosexuality has helped shape Western culture. Extending from the trials of Oscar Wilde to the gay liberation era, this...

"An Ordinary Dog" is a carnival of clashing forms and tones, all deployed with a cool wit and technical precision. They bear sceptical witness to – what? To the affecting ordinariness of human needs, to the vanity of human wishes. Woods writes about...

A quidnunc is a gossip, one who is constantly asking, "What now?" "Quidnunc" is a poem in which four individuals are haunted in different ways by what they have not forgotten. And Quidnunc is a collection in which, whether recent or distant, personal...

"The District Commissioner's Dreams" is an integrated collection in which Gregory Woods returns to the themes of obsession, possession and violence. In its explorations of masculinity, the opening section draws on struggles for power in ancient and m...

This important book is the first full-scale account of male gay literature across cultures, languages, and centuries. A work of reference as well as the definitive history of a tradition, it traces writing by and about homosexual men from ancient Gre...

Gregory Woods takes the epigraph of his second collection from Jean Genet: "more objectivity, more passivity, more indifference, hence poetry". "May I Say Nothing" is a collection of homo-erotic verses on both personal and broader social themes. The...

Layered with rich insight, this powerful collection of proseprovides an unidealistic stance on homosexualitythat evokes the many landscapes of sensuality and desire.