From TikTok phenomenon Whitney Hanson, a brand-new collection of poems exploring the progression of a life through the elements of musician this collection of all new poems, Whitney Hanson explores the progression of a life through the lens of music. We each begin with a...

This unique collection of poems from the Poet Laureate, filled with her characteristic wit, is a feminist classic and a modern take on age-old mythology. Who? Him. The Husband.Hero. Hunk. The Boy Next Door.The Paramour. The Je t'adore. Behind every famous man is a...

LGBT reimaginings of Scottish folktales Wain is a collection of LGBT themed poetry for teens based on retellings of Scottish myths. The collection contains stories about kelpies, selkies, and the Loch Ness Monster, alongside perhaps lesser-known mythical people and creatures, such as wulvers, Ghillie Dhu,...

With an Introduction and Bibliography by Stephen Matterson, Trinity College, Dublin. Walt Whitman's verse gave the poetry of America a distinctive national voice. It reflects the unique vitality of the new nation, the vastness of the land and the emergence of a sometimes troubled...

Bestselling and award-winning author Trista Mateer takes an imaginative approach to self-care in this new poetry and prose collection, Aphrodite Made Me Do It. In this empowering retelling, she uses the mythology of the goddess to weave a common thread through the past and present....

An Anthology of Contemporary Bi+ Poetry The first-ever anthology of poems written by those who identify under the bi+ umbrella, Bi+ Lines is an engrossing, exciting, and often moving title gathering bi+ poets from across the globe. Edited by award winning poet Helen Bowell,...

The thrilling debut pamphlet from Cleo Henry, The Last Lesbian Bar in the Midlands fuses the classics with lesbian culture, fizzing with excitement and wordplay. With references to Achilles, Lea De Laria, Carson McCullers, Helen of Troy and Cynthia Nixon, the poems in this...

There is (still) love here, the compelling new collection of poetry by Dean Atta, is a personal and powerful exploration of relationships, love and loss, encompassing LGBTQ+ and Black history, Greek Cypriot heritage, pride and identity, dislocation and belonging. Atta’s tender, precisely-crafted and generous poems...

This is Jay Hulme's first published collection of poetry. It showcases his unique voice and form of expression. The poems have been carefully selected to chart Jay's journey from growing up in a working-class family in Leicestershire to his feelings and thoughts about school...

Fourteen Poems is a London-based poetry journal, publishing the most exciting LGBTQ+ poets 3 times a year. This anthology is designed to bring modern poetry into your everyday life. We hope by limiting it to just fourteen poems, you’ll be able to get a...

In 2009 Knopf published a new translation of Cavafy's Complete Poems by the brilliant and award-winning writer and scholar Daniel Mendelsohn. Now Mendelsohn has made a selection of the poet's best-loved works for a Pocket Poets edition, including such favorites as "Waiting for the...

*Winner of the 2015 Guardian First Book Award*Raw and urgent, these poems are hymns to the male body - to male friendship and male love - muscular, sometimes shocking, but always deeply moving. We are witness here to an almost religious celebration of the...

From the beloved author of 100 Boyfriends, a wrenching, sexy, and exhilaratingly energetic memoir in verse.In Ten Bridges I've Burnt, Brontez Purnell - the bard of the underloved and overlooked - turns his gaze inward. A storyteller with a musical eye for the absurdity of his...

During his lifetime, James Baldwin authored seven novels, as well as several plays and essay collections, many of which were published to wide-spread praise. Baldwin's novels and essays brought him respect as a public intellectual and admiration as a writer. However, Baldwin's earliest writing...

New and Selected Poems 1975 - 2014. A collection of thrilling verse, including both new poems and beloved favourites, from the celebrated poet, modern cult icon, and author of nineteen books including Chelsea Girls. Eileen Myles' work is known for its blend of reality...

From acclaimed poet Franny Choi comes a poetry collection for the ends of worlds-past, present, and future. Choi's third book features poems about historical and impending apocalypses, alongside musings on our responsibilities to each other and visions for our collective survival. Many have called...

"WITCH is sexy, frightening and cerebral. Rebecca Tamas is the real deal." KATHERINE ANGEL; WITCH is a strange, visceral and darkly witty debut by a startling new voice in British poetry. Rebecca Tamas reckons with blood and earth, mysticism and the devil, witch trials...

Bethany Rose is an LGBT spoken word poet and illustrator who writes about everything from sexuality to mental health, through to longing and light. Beth's poem 'Pink' aired on BBC3 last year and received over five million views, and her commission 'Lightbulb' for BBC1...

Shortlisted for the Costa 2019 Poetry Award. Winner of the 2020 Hawthornden Prize.Surreal, joyful, political and queer, Reckless Paper Birds is a collection to treasure by Polari Prize-winning poet John McCullough. These exuberant poems welcome you into a psychedelic, parallel world of 'vomit and...

A revised edition of the publisher's inaugural publication in 1990, which won the Pandora Award from Women-in-Publishing. Inspirational in its original format, this new edition features poems, stories, essays and interviews with over 30 women writers, both emerging authors and luminaries of contemporary literature...

There are trans people here in the past, the present, and the future. H. Melt's writing centres the deep care, love, and joy within trans communities. This poetry collection describes moments of resistance in queer and trans history as catalysts for movements today. It...

This chapbook celebrates both diversity and artistry  in creative collaboration that amplifies the talent we know exists in our communities, yet is so often overlooked in mainstream publishing.

C. P. Cavafy is one of the most singular and poignant voices of twentieth-century European poetry, conjuring a magical interior world through lyrical evocations of remembered passions, imagined monologues and dramatic retellings of his native Alexandria's ancient past.Figures from antiquity speak with telling interruptions...

**WINNER OF THE POLARI PRIZE 2019** 'Vivid, accessible and honest, sometimes uncomfortably so' Alan Bennett, London Review of Books. In these intimate, sometimes painfully frank poems, Andrew McMillan takes us back to childhood and early adolescence to explore the different ways we grow into...

A Queer Words Anthology From drag queens and discos to standing stones and black holes, monsters and angels and everything in between, the stories and poems in this collection wrestle with love and loneliness and the fight to be seen. Is a snapshot of...

For fans of Maggie Nelson and Eileen Myles, the lyrical and deeply moving story of a young queer woman’s journey across Russia to inter her mother’s ashes and to understand her sexuality, femininity, and grief From one of Russia’s most exciting new voices, Wound...

A poetry book like no other, with beautiful endpapers and a reversable cover jacket that allows you to choose your preferred pronoun. The perfect gift book or statement piece for any shelf.  He, She, They, Us pulls together poems from queer poets both old...

In Poems to Fall in Love With Chris Riddell has selected and illustrated his very favourite classic and modern poems about love. This gorgeously illustrated collection celebrates love in all its guises, from silent admiration, passion and married bliss to tearful resignation. These poems...

How do you untangle the real you from the curated you? In this introspective yet whimsical collection, poet Grant Chemidlin takes readers into the thicket of self-discovery. What We Lost in the Swamp is a lush and vibrant collection of poems that examines the...

Fourteen Poems is a London-based poetry journal, publishing the most exciting LGBTQ+ poets 3 times a year. This anthology is designed to bring modern poetry into your everyday life. We hope by limiting it to just fourteen poems, you’ll be able to get a...