Category: Previews, Reviews, and Features
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In Conversation, In Critique – Mari Ellis Dunning
In Conversation When Mari Ellis Dunning began drafting the poem that would become Crocodile, she didn’t set out to write a pamphlet. The piece emerged after she read Laura Bates’ Men Who Hate Women, a book that confronted her with the blunt machinery of misogyny and its many masked forms. That initial poem, exploring an…
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Oh Man! goes live at North Bay Poetics
This Tuesday, 15 July, I’ll be the featured poet at North Bay Poetics, reading from oh, man! — a collaborative collection co-written with the brilliant Paul Robert Mullen. It’s hosted by Karen Pierce Gonzalez and broadcast live via Zoom from the San Francisco Bay Area. I’ll be zooming in from the UK. The open mic…
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Rainbows in the Rough – Shaun Ponsonby: Queer Pop Culture Criticism That Cuts Deep
In a landscape drowning in clickbait and corporate rainbow-washing, Shaun Ponsonby‘s Rainbows in the Rough: The Unlikely Queer Icons That Shaped a Closeted Queen lands like a gut-punch: sharp, funny, and unapologetically queer. This isn’t just an anthology of LGBTQIA+ essays. It’s a cultural force, a joyous riot of lived experience, unlikely love, and critical…
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Previewing out.skirts: The LGBTQIA+ Anthology You Should Be Reading
Let’s be clear from the off, this isn’t a soft-focus puff piece. I don’t do reverence for reverence’s sake. But I do care deeply about the kind of work that tries to say something real, even when it falters. out.skirts is a brave and necessary anthology. It’s not perfect, what is? But it pulses with…