The Missing Movies & Media Adaptations

The Missing Media Adaptations

San Francisco State University'sPoetry Center has an extensive archive of recorded readings by Thom Gunn. A thirty-four-minute tape of a November 22, 1986 reading features the poet reciting several poems from The Man with Night Sweats, the collection that includes "The Missing."

Letters to the Future and Distressed are two 1993 recordings of vocal and instrumental scores using the poetry of Thom Gunn as lyrics. The first audiocassette (or CD) features the work of many other established poets as well. They are both available from YRM.

Readings by the Poets is a 1995 book and audiocassette from Faber and Faber that features Thom Gunn and many of Great Britain's most highly esteemed poets.

Poet's Night: Eleven Leading Poets Celebrate Fifty Years of Poetry at Farrar, Straus, & Giroux, a 1998 recording commissioned by Thom Gunn's American publisher, is available from Penguin Audiobooks.