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Having been reading so much Queer Poetry this collection is like your ideal dinner party guests – many familiar poets, familiar poems – but also new encounters that delight – Mary and Andrew have done a very good work in bring this collection together – so many voices will be heard more widely, and so many readers will be enriched because of it…
I could probably of tagged every poem, but I put tags in -
Vintage Barbie Chest of Drawers by Matthew Haigh – which I have read before
ode to tracksuit by Peter Scalpello – which I think I had also read before
Spat by Caroline Bird – which in seven lines speaks so much about relationships
may a transsexual hear a bird? By Harry Josephine Giles
from Vitrine by Joelle Taylor
The Law Concerning Mermaids by Kei Miller
A Litany for Survival by Audre Lorde – with its bitter sweet final lines “So it is better to speak / remembering / we were never meant to survive.”
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