Playtime
By: Andrew McMillan
4.08
Format: 80 pages, Paperback
In these intimate, sometimes painfully frank poems, Andrew McMillan takes us back to childhood and …
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1. Averno
By: Louise Glück
4.18
Format: 76 pages, Paperback
WINNER OF THE NOBEL PRIZE IN LITERATURE Averno is a small crater lake in southern Italy, regarde… read more
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- poetry
"Is it possible to miss the opportunity of one's life?"-Louise Glück, Averno
"What will you do, when it is your turn in the field with the god?"-Louise Glück, Averno
"My memory is like a basement filled with old papers: nothing ever changes."-Louise Glück, Averno
"If your soul died, whose life are you living, and when did you become that person?"-Louise Glück, Averno
2. The Faggots and Their Friends Between Revolutions
By: Larry Mitchell , Ned Asta
4.50
Format: 114 pages, Paperback
The Faggots and Their Friends Between Revolutions is a beloved queer utopian text written by Larry … read more
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- poetry
- queer
- lgbt
"The strong women told the faggots that the more you share, the less you need."-Larry Mitchell, The Faggots and Their Friends Between Revolutions
"The women who love women wrote a song for the faggots. It was called, "Anything you do that the men don't like is o.k. by us."-Larry Mitchell, The Faggots and Their Friends Between Revolutions
"Ramrod has an empire. They have not had it very long yet already it is shabby and disreputable. Everyday the faggots and their friends can see, hear, and feel Ramrod's empire disintegrating as the me…"-Larry Mitchell, The Faggots and Their Friends Between Revolutions
"Nothing can defeat the spirit of the earth. The fairies know that the earth will not tolerate the men much longer. The earth, scarred and gouged and stripped and bombed, will deny life to the men in …"-Larry Mitchell, The Faggots and Their Friends Between Revolutions
3. Motherland Fatherland Homelandsexuals
By: Patricia Lockwood
3.75
Format: 271 pages, Paperback
A breathtaking new collection from one of today's boldest and most adventurous poets Colloquial and… read more
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- poetry
- queer
- lgbt
4. Crush
By: Richard Siken
3.67
Format: None pages, Paperback
Richard Siken's Crush, selected as the 2004 winner of the Yale Younger Poets prize, is a powerful c… read more
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- poetry
- queer
- lgbt
5. The Man With Night Sweats
By: Thom Gunn
3.92
Format: 368 pages, Paperback
This volume--a contemporary classic by "one of the most singular and compelling poets in English [o… read more
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6. Bad Gays: A Homosexual History
By: Huw Lemmey
3.55
Format: 368 pages, Hardcover
Too many popular histories seek to establish heroes, pioneers and martyrs but as Huw Lemmey and Ben… read more
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- queer
- lgbt
7. The New Life
By: Tom Crewe
3.77
Format: 392 pages, Hardcover
Two Victorian marriages, two dangerous love affairs, one extraordinary partnership . . .London, 189… read more
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- queer
- lgbt
"Science requires a rational audience."-Tom Crewe, The New Life
"True development does not respect comfort."-Tom Crewe, The New Life
"We British are used to being ruthless, of course, but only the men. The women aren't. We don't grab. We shouldn't . But we have to, to make some room for ourselves."-Tom Crewe, The New Life
"...John wondered if she would ever be so unthinkingly imperious again; whether her childish powers of command would survive the dislocation from home, the knowledge of her smallness in the greater wo…"-Tom Crewe, The New Life
8. So Late in the Day
By: Claire Keegan
4.00
Format: 47 pages, Hardcover
After an uneventful Friday at the Dublin office, Cathal faces into the long weekend and takes the b… read more
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9. C+nto and Othered Poems
By: Joelle Taylor
4.25
Format: 128 pages, Paperback
Winner of the T.S. Eliot Prize 2021. The female body is a political space. C+nto enters the priv… read more
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- poetry
- queer
- lgbt
10. Aphrodite Made Me Do It
By: Trista Mateer
3.97
Format: 191 pages, Kindle Edition
Bestselling and award-winning author Trista Mateer takes an imaginative approach to self-care in th… read more
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- poetry
- queer
- lgbt
"Not all gods are born. Plenty of us rise."-Trista Mateer, Aphrodite Made Me Do It
"I’m afraid of not unlearning the bad things my parents taught me."-Trista Mateer, Aphrodite Made Me Do It
"love has little to do with blood relations and more to do with who you choose to bleed for"-Trista Mateer, Aphrodite Made Me Do It
"The thing about embracing your own chaos is that it never becomes clear when you need to stop."-Trista Mateer, Aphrodite Made Me Do It
11. 100 Queer Poems
By: Mary Jean Chan
3.82
Format: 175 pages, Hardcover
Andrew McMillan and Mary Jean Chan's luminous anthology, 100 Queer Poems, is a celebration of thril… read more
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- poetry
- queer
- anthologies
- lgbt
12. Tennis Lessons
By: Susannah Dickey
3.43
Format: 256 pages, Hardcover
You know you're strange and wrong. You've known it from the beginning. This is the voice that r… read more
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13. All the Men I Never Married
By: Kim Moore
4.34
Format: 70 pages, Paperback
All The Men I Never Married is the highly anticipated second collection by Kim Moore. The author po… read more
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- poetry
14. Playtime
By: Andrew McMillan
4.08
Format: 80 pages, Paperback
In these intimate, sometimes painfully frank poems, Andrew McMillan takes us back to childhood and … read more
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- poetry
- lgbt
- collections
- anthologies
- queer
15. Antonyms for Burial
By: Ellora Sutton
4.50
Format: 36 pages, None
A reader about to taste the zestful phrasing of antonyms for burial should prepare themselves: this… read more
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- poetry
16. The Home Child
By: Liz Berry
4.40
Format: 80 pages, Hardcover
Inspired by a true story, a beautiful novel-in-verse about a child far from home. From award-winnin… read more
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- poetry
17. Unexhausted Time
By: Emily Berry
3.94
Format: 76 pages, Paperback
Unexhausted Time inhabits a world of dream and dawn, in which thoughts touch us 'like soft rain', a… read more
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- poetry
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19. Rosarita
By: Anita Desai
3.29
Format: 112 pages, Hardcover
'Anita Desai is a magnificent writer' - Salman RushdieFrom three times Booker-shortlisted author An… read more
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20. Bi+ Lines: An Anthology of Contemporary Bi+ Poetry
By: Helen Bowell
4.45
Format: 72 pages, Paperback
The first-ever anthology of poems written by those who identify under the bi+ umbrella, Bi+ Lines i… read more
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- poetry
- lgbt
21. In Public/In Private
By: Leyla Josephine
4.57
Format: 60 pages, Paperback
Leyla Josephine dances between her private and public lives, her inner thoughts and outer performan… read more
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