"I write hungry sentences," Natalie Diaz once explained in an interview, "because they want more and more lyricism and imagery to satisfy them." This debut collection is a fast-paced tour of Mojave life and family narrative: A sister fights for or against a brother on meth,...

Gay and Lesbian Love Poems From Sappho to Shakespeare to Cole Porter - a marvellous and wide-ranging collection of classic gay and lesbian love poetry. The poets represented here include Walt Whitman, Hart Crane, Gertrude Stein, Federico Garcia Lorca, Djuna Barnes, Constantine Cavafy, Elizabeth Bishop,...

WINNER OF THE DESMOND ELLIOTT PRIZE 2020 'A singular achievement.'Michael Donkor, Guardian, 'Heartbreaking, important and original.' Christie Watson, author of THE LANGUAGE OF KINDNESS, 'Derek Owusu's writing is honest, moving, delicate, but tough. Once you lock on to his words, it is hard to...

In Alycia Pirmohamed's debut collection, Another Way to Split Water, a woman's body expands and contracts across the page, fog uncoils at the fringes of a forest, and water in all its forms cascades into metaphors of longing and separation just as often as...

Winner of the 2019 Pamet River Prize, Shelley Wong’s debut, As She Appears, foregrounds queer women of colour in their being and becoming. Following the end of a relationship that was marked by silence, a woman crosses over and embodies the expanse of desire...

'A much-needed escape into a lyrical world' Let her be a little less human, a little more divine. Give her heart armour so it doesn't break as easily as mine. One girl's wild journey of strength, beauty and growth as she discovers who she...

Revenge Body is Rachel Wiley's third collection of poetry, full of the sharp wit and bold honesty we know and love from Rachel. Wiley invites her readers to join her on a journey filled with righteous anger, Black identity, magic, mental health, navigating maternal...

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...

Poems for a Queer MythologyChallenged to live queer in this world, inspired by ancient myths and sacred stories, and fed by the deep nourishment of nature’s beauty, The Gorgon Verses is the product of a long personal journey of writing poetry and digging deeply...

This harvest of poems is inspired by the plant medicine latent in Gossypium Herbeceum, or Cotton Root Bark, which was used by enslaved Black women to induce labor, cure reproductive ailments and end unwanted pregnancies. Through an arrangement of stories, secrets and memories experienced,...

Marlanda Dekine's debut collection is a holy, radical unlearning and reclamation of self. What does it mean to be a Gullah-Geechee descendant from a rural place where a third of the nation's founding wealth was harvested by trafficked West and Central Africans? Dekine's poems...

fist of wind is a lyrical testimony that centres the Black body as a site of healing and transformation. This chapbook/collection of poetry explores the lived experience of menstruation marked by pain and the liminal existence of Black folk as magical and mortal. fist of wind draws...

let the dead in is an exploration of the mythologies that seek to subjugate Black bodies, and the counter-stories that reject such subjugation. Audacious, sensual, and grieving, this work explores how Black women harness the fantastic to craft their own road to freedom. A journey...

The coming-of-age chronicle of a queer Latinx Southerner. In C. T. Salazar's striking debut poetry collection, the speaker is situated in the tradition of Southern literature but reimagines its terrain with an eye on the South's historic and ongoing violence. His restless relationship with...

The name 'Hidden Voice Publishing' reflects the essential need to make our collective stories and voices heard and that is what we hope to do with this publication. In this world, there are dominant voices that always seem to speak the loudest. These voices...

As he was turning forty, Walt Whitman wrote twelve poems in a small handmade book he entitled "Live Oak, With Moss." The poems were intensely private reflections on his attraction to and affection for other men. They were also Whitman's most adventurous explorations of...

Mark Doty has always felt haunted by Walt Whitman's bold, new American voice, and by his equally radical claims about body and soul and what it means to be a self. In What Is the Grass, Doty - a poet, a lover of men,...

Imagined as a living, breathing, pulsing body of work through which the poetry of blood courses, visceral is a collection of poems, personal essays, and photographs inspired by blood and what it represents. Divided thematically into chapters or vis-cera he work was conceived in...

Jackie Kay's first collection as Scottish Makar is a book about the fighting spirit - one, the poet argues, that we need now more than ever. Bantam brings three generations into sharp focus - Kay's own, her father's, and his own father's - to...

Shortlisted for the Poetry Pigott Prize in association with Listowel Writers' WeekThrough four highly acclaimed collections, Colette Bryce has steadily consolidated her position as one of the most important of the younger generation of Irish poets. Possessed of a preternaturally acute ear and eye,...

The Whole & Rain-domed Universe is Colette Bryce's much-anticipated follow-up to Self-Portrait in the Dark. The book presents the reader with an extraordinarily clear-eyed, vivid and sometimes disturbing account of growing up in Derry during the Troubles, with many ghosts both raised and laid...

A Celebration of Gospel An inspirational, joyous celebration of poetry, art, and rhythm, tracing the history of African-American gospel music and the poets, singers, and thought leaders who have fearlessly and soulfully contributed to the spiritual and social evolution of America. Clap Your Hands,...