Celebrate the launch of Arachne Press’s LGBTQ+ anthology, Joy//Us: Poems of Queer Joy
At The Queery, Brighton
Join Arachne Press and poets Abhi, Becky Brookfield, Cherry Potts, Elizabeth Gibson, Jeremy Dixon, John McCullough, JP Seabright, K Angel, Maria Jastrzębska, Rick Dove, Robert Hamberger, Sophia Blackwell Steph Morris and Zo Copeland for poems, chat, and maybe a cake. Books will be on sale.
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. We are expecting the launch to be just as wide-ranging and joyful.
The poems in the book find joy in the simplest (or most complex) things. Love, sex, a quiet night in, dancing with friends, nurturing of and from our community, recognition from allies, a welcome from strangers, celebrating our cultural icons… the identity-affirming haircut, the right jeans, books, walking, food, flint-knapping… and political action.