Thom Gunn (1929-2004) was educated at Cambridge University and wrote his first collection of poems, Fighting Terms (1954), while he was still an undergraduate. He moved to Northern California in 1954 and taught at American universities until his death. His last collection was Boss Cupid (FSG, 2000). August Kleinzahler is the author of more than a dozen books of poetry and several collections of essays. He lives in San Francisco and was a close friend and neighbor of Thom Gunn's for more than twenty years. Michael Nott is the author of Photopoetry, 1845-2015: A Critical History (2018). He was a Fulbright fellow at the University of California, Berkeley, and a postdoctoral fellow at University College Cork. Clive Wilmer, who first met Thom Gunn in 1964, is the author of eight books of poetry, including New and Collected Poems (2012). He edited Gunn's first collection of essays, The Occasions of Poetry (1982), and his New Selected Poems (2018). He is an emeritus fellow in English at Sidney Sussex College, Cambridge.