First presented in 2001 as the Triangle Award for Gay Poetry, the award was renamed in memory of American poet Thom Gunn, the award's first winner, following his death in 2004.
Thom Yorke | Thom Mayne | Peter Gunn | Kampong Thom Province | Thom Bell | James Gunn | Thom Gunn | Battiscombe Gunn | Na Thom District | James Gunn (filmmaker) | Thom Monahan | Sandi Thom | René Thom | James Alexander Thom | David L. Gunn | Bryn Gunn | Billy Gunn | William Gunn (cricketer) | Tim Gunn | Thom Weisel | Thom Tillis | Thom Browne | Thom Beers | Thom | The Thom Bell Sessions | The Big Picture with Thom Hartmann | Jenny Gunn | Gunn | George Gunn | Angkor Thom |
At Trinity Hall he co-edited the poetry magazine Chequer, which continued for eleven issues and published poems by Thom Gunn, Anne Stevenson, Ted Hughes, and Sylvia Plath.
An essay by Paul Davies about the creation of this book is included in Professor A.T. Tolley's collection, John Lehmann: a Tribute (Ottawa, Carleton University Press, 1987), which also includes pieces by Roy Fuller, Thom Gunn, Charles Osborne, Christopher Levenson, Jeremy Reed, George Woodcock, and others.
Triadic-line poetry or stepped line, in effect a long line split into three and indented, was created by William Carlos Williams and taken up later by poets Charles Tomlinson and Thom Gunn,.