Joy//Us: LGBTQ+ poetry

By Cherry Potts and Jeremy Dixon

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 Jastrzębska Mwelwa Chilekwa P Burton-Morgan Rab Green Rick Dove Robert Hamberger Sophia Blackwell Steph Morris Tanya Erin Sheehan Tom McLaughlin Vron McIntyre Zo Copeland

• Language: English
• Publisher: Arachne Press
• Release date: May 17, 2024
• ISBN: 9781913665906

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JOY//US

Poems of Queer Joy

Edited by

Cherry Potts

and

Jeremy Dixon

First published in UK 2024 by Arachne Press Limited

100 Grierson Road, London SE23 1NX

www.arachnepress.com

© Arachne Press 2024

ISBNs

Print 978-1-913665-89-0

eBook 978-1-913665-90-6

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Thanks to Muireann Grealy, for her proofing.

Printed on woodfree paper in the UK.

With huge thanks to our crowdfund supporters, Kythé Beaumont, Mark Senior and Poetry Pharmacy, and the 60 other individual supporters who helped bring this book to fruition.

Acknowledgements

Introduction © Cherry Potts & Jeremy Dixon 2024

A Night in t’Pub © Joshua Linney 2024

Abracadabra! and Small Green Thing © John McCullough 2024

After the Parade and Heading Out © Aoife Mannix 2024

Balcony Scene © Rick Dove 2024

Blessed Be and Hip Hop Line Dancing in Dallas © Dean Atta 2024

Bread the Love © Abhi 2024

Coming-home Jeans © Elizabeth Gibson 2024

Dance Free on Hope and Great Queen Street © Cherry Potts 2024

Dirty Dykes and Them and They © Vron McIntyre 2024

does it fit © Conway Emmett

Don’t © Joy Howard 2024

First © Laurie B. 2024

First Night, New Town © Sophia Blackwell 2024

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