This collection of poems, brought to us by Fourteen Poems, is so fresh and powerful. To speak of the sexuality of people with “disabilities” shifts so many boundaries – and in claiming their Queer Sexual identities our poets are also claiming their personhood. Too often the de-sexualising of people with “disabilities” is a key part of their de-humanisation. Allow them sexuality and you allow them power and agency.
It is hard in such a strong collection to highlight particular poems, but I will mention these:
I love men that have it brutal but make it gorgeous by Will Darling which declares love to so many ways of being a man…
When Google returns five million four hundred eighty thousand results for fucking by Cat Chong
Choke Me With My Sunflower Lanyard by Rosamund Taylor it layers up the complexity and the simplicity of lust.
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