Fourteen Poems. Queer Poetry Anthology. Issue 11.

Fourteen queer contemporary poets, from Europe, Asia, North and South America and, hilariously, round the corner from our HQ in east London.

As always, we want each issue to reflect a diversity of ideas and experiences within the LGBTQ+ community and we hope these fourteen poems do that for you all.

There are poems about queer childhood (“mango drawing” by Gayathiri Kamalakanthan) and urging to push against the boundaries in that childhood (“Red Jumper” by Annie Brechin). There’s also Gustav Parker Hibbett’s “High Jump as Icarus Story”, which packs so many ideas in but at its core is perhaps a look at why queer kids push themselves so hard (spoiler: we all want to be loved).

And speaking of love, there’s heartbreak (“Broken” by Nathan Evans) and how poetry can be used to vocalise that ache (“Stacks” by Sarah Donley) – but also a celebration of everyday relationships, whether that’s home haircuts in “A Latin American Sonnet CXXVII” by Leo Boix or the safety of co-habiting with your love in A. Shaikh’s “Domesticity”.

Poems in Issue 11:

“If Polari was a kind of Birdsong" by Kym Deyn

“Red Jumper” by Annie Brechin

“mango drawing” by Gayathiri Kamalakanthan

“A Latin American Sonnet CXXVII” by Leo Boix

“Stack” by Sarah Donley

“Chaturanga” by Shaun Hill

“High Jump as Icarus Story” by Gustav Parker Hibbett

“Broken” by Nathan Evans

“Domesticity” by A. Shaikh

“Fugue” by Nico Amador

“Alighting at the Beginning and End of the Line” by Minying Huang

“Butter” by Alex Mepham

“Song in Three Voices” by Freya Jackson

“Final Boy Finding a Husband” by Stephen S. Mills

Fourteen Poems, 2023
Softcover, 40pp 
195 x 135mm