Joy//Us
LGBTQ+ poetry
Published on 17. May 2024
60 pages
978-1-913665-90-6 (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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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
