*Author received no formal education and was unable to read until adulthood but became involved in London’s queer poetry scene in the 60s and then began to publish in small magazines and journals. 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.

*Working-class, queer, and Anglo-Romani, Hyatt is one of the great lost poets of the mid-century.

*Author’s work was kept safe in archives and passed among friends for nearly 40 years. This collection, So Much For Life: Poems, is the first full-length collection of the author's work.

*Author was queer during a key phase of legal reforms in England and wrote explicitly and directly about sex and desire, which was rare in the poetry of his British contemporaries.

*For those interested in candid lyric poetry, the pastoral, queer desire and the psychedelic 60s wilderness.

*Author’s autobiographical novel, Love, Leda (Peninsula Press, 2023), gives a snapshot of his life circa 1960.