Joy//Us
LGBTQ+ poetry
Published on 17. May 2024
Book
Paperback/Softback
62 pages
978-1-913665-89-0 (ISBN)
Description
Arachne Press has long been a champion of LGBTQ+ writers, but we've never before published an anthology of LGBTQ+ poetry. These are joyful poems that celebrate all that is best about our community/ies and lives. This is not an 'explain it to the straights' book, this is for us. LGBTQ+ readers can open this book at random and find a moment of poetic queer joy for themselves, however big or small.
Featuring contributions from: Abhi Alexander Williams Annie Kerr Aoife Mannix Becky Brookfield Cherry Potts Conway Emmett Dean Atta Desree Elizabeth Chadwick Pywell Elizabeth Gibson Garnett 'Ratte' Frost Helen Bowie Jane Aldous Jeremy Dixon John McCullough Joshua Linney Joshua Jones Joy Howard JP Seabright K. Angel Kate Foley Khakan Qureshi, BEM Laurie B. Lawrence Wilson Lydia Fulleylove Maria Jastrzebska Mwelwa Chilekwa P Burton-Morgan Rab Green Rick Dove Robert Hamberger Sophia Blackwell Steph Morris Tanya Erin Sheehan Tom McLaughlin Vron McIntyre Zo Copeland
Featuring contributions from: Abhi Alexander Williams Annie Kerr Aoife Mannix Becky Brookfield Cherry Potts Conway Emmett Dean Atta Desree Elizabeth Chadwick Pywell Elizabeth Gibson Garnett 'Ratte' Frost Helen Bowie Jane Aldous Jeremy Dixon John McCullough Joshua Linney Joshua Jones Joy Howard JP Seabright K. Angel Kate Foley Khakan Qureshi, BEM Laurie B. Lawrence Wilson Lydia Fulleylove Maria Jastrzebska Mwelwa Chilekwa P Burton-Morgan Rab Green Rick Dove Robert Hamberger Sophia Blackwell Steph Morris Tanya Erin Sheehan Tom McLaughlin Vron McIntyre Zo Copeland
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Language
English
Place of publication
London
United Kingdom
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Paperback (UK-B)
Dimensions
Height: 198 mm
Width: 129 mm
Thickness: 5 mm
Weight
109 gr
ISBN-13
978-1-913665-89-0 (9781913665890)
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Persons
Cherry Potts is the Director of Arachne Press, for whom she is editor of almost all our anthologies and runs the Annual Solstice Shorts Festival.
Cherry is the author of an epic fantasy novel, two collections of short stories, a photographic diary of a community opera, and has had many stories in anthologies, magazines and online. Her novel of sibling hatred in the 1920s, The Bog Mermaid, won the Quill LGBTQ+ Prose prize 2022.
Jeremy Dixon was born in Essex and spent 45 year in rural South Wales making Artist's Books that combine poetry and photography. He now lives on the Wirral. His poems have appeared both online and in print in Roundyhouse Magazine, Riptide Journal, Lighthouse Journal, Durable Goods, and Really System, among others. Arachne Press published his first poetry pamphlet, In Retail, and his first full collection, A Voice Coming From Then, which won the Wales Book of the Year 2022 Englsih Language Poetry Category
Cherry is the author of an epic fantasy novel, two collections of short stories, a photographic diary of a community opera, and has had many stories in anthologies, magazines and online. Her novel of sibling hatred in the 1920s, The Bog Mermaid, won the Quill LGBTQ+ Prose prize 2022.
Jeremy Dixon was born in Essex and spent 45 year in rural South Wales making Artist's Books that combine poetry and photography. He now lives on the Wirral. His poems have appeared both online and in print in Roundyhouse Magazine, Riptide Journal, Lighthouse Journal, Durable Goods, and Really System, among others. Arachne Press published his first poetry pamphlet, In Retail, and his first full collection, A Voice Coming From Then, which won the Wales Book of the Year 2022 Englsih Language Poetry Category
Content
Introduction Cherry Potts & Jeremy Dixon
Flint Knapping is Queer Now K. Angel
Blessed Be Dean Atta
Short Back and Sides JP Seabright
Trees Like Us Zo Copeland
Balcony Scene Rick Dove
Small Green Thing John McCullough
Flexible Mwelwa Chilekwa
The Wrestler Joshua Jones
Probably Won't Be a Church Service Rab Green
Making Queer Friends on Purpose Tanya Erin Sheehan
Them and They Vron McIntyre
Great Queen Street Cherry Potts
The Quick Camp Laugh Alexander Williams
She Said Everyone Falls a Little Bit In Love With Their Friends Sometimes Helen Bowie
Plas Newydd Tom McLaughlin
does it fit Conway Emmett
A Night in t'Pub Joshua Linney
Bread the Love Abhi
Women, Lava Maria Jastrzebska
Legacy Steph Morris
Madison Square Park on July 14th Robert Hamberger
When I am Twelve a New Girl Joins Our School P Burton-Morgan
Gorse Track Maria Jastrzebska
Fresh Kate Foley
Abracadabra! John McCullough
Heading Out Aoife Mannix
Hip Hop Line Dancing in Dallas Dean Atta
Moon Becky Brookfield
First Laurie B.
Dirty Dykes Vron McIntyre
Living Lawrence Wilson
Coming-home Jeans Elizabeth Gibson
Time Warp Garnett 'Ratte' Frost
Don't Joy Howard
Instead of a Bible Lydia Fulleylove
How We Love Khakan Qureshi, BEM
Her Blue Shirt Annie Kerr
After the Parade Aoife Mannix
Onion Lydia Fulleylove
While Cruising Cardiff Bay Jeremy Dixon
Dance Free on Hope Cherry Potts
Foundation Desree
In a Meadow a Girl Holds her Friend's Hand Elizabeth Chadwick Pywell
New Town 2013 Sophia Blackwell
Old Flip-Phone Videos Jane Aldous
JOY//US Jeremy Dixon
Flint Knapping is Queer Now K. Angel
Blessed Be Dean Atta
Short Back and Sides JP Seabright
Trees Like Us Zo Copeland
Balcony Scene Rick Dove
Small Green Thing John McCullough
Flexible Mwelwa Chilekwa
The Wrestler Joshua Jones
Probably Won't Be a Church Service Rab Green
Making Queer Friends on Purpose Tanya Erin Sheehan
Them and They Vron McIntyre
Great Queen Street Cherry Potts
The Quick Camp Laugh Alexander Williams
She Said Everyone Falls a Little Bit In Love With Their Friends Sometimes Helen Bowie
Plas Newydd Tom McLaughlin
does it fit Conway Emmett
A Night in t'Pub Joshua Linney
Bread the Love Abhi
Women, Lava Maria Jastrzebska
Legacy Steph Morris
Madison Square Park on July 14th Robert Hamberger
When I am Twelve a New Girl Joins Our School P Burton-Morgan
Gorse Track Maria Jastrzebska
Fresh Kate Foley
Abracadabra! John McCullough
Heading Out Aoife Mannix
Hip Hop Line Dancing in Dallas Dean Atta
Moon Becky Brookfield
First Laurie B.
Dirty Dykes Vron McIntyre
Living Lawrence Wilson
Coming-home Jeans Elizabeth Gibson
Time Warp Garnett 'Ratte' Frost
Don't Joy Howard
Instead of a Bible Lydia Fulleylove
How We Love Khakan Qureshi, BEM
Her Blue Shirt Annie Kerr
After the Parade Aoife Mannix
Onion Lydia Fulleylove
While Cruising Cardiff Bay Jeremy Dixon
Dance Free on Hope Cherry Potts
Foundation Desree
In a Meadow a Girl Holds her Friend's Hand Elizabeth Chadwick Pywell
New Town 2013 Sophia Blackwell
Old Flip-Phone Videos Jane Aldous
JOY//US Jeremy Dixon