Aidan Coleman

John Forbes lived brilliantly and dangerously: ill-fated love affairs, addictions, uncompromising artistic vision, dead at forty-seven. Aidan Coleman examines the poet's oeuvre, alongside his taste-shaping criticism, his collaborations with fellow artists, his generosity and pugnacity, and his magnetism as a teacher and reveller in Europe and Australia. Damaged Glamour is the first comprehensive portrait of the dazzling but troubled poet,...