Lynch, Éadaoín & Pirmohamed, Alycia - Re·creation

Re·creation: A Queer Poetry Anthology

Author: Éadaoín Lynch & Alycia Pirmohamed

Genre: Poetry, Anthologies

Pages: 61

Publisher: Stewed Rhubarb

Release Date: July 1, 2022

Format: Paperback

Size (in cm): 19.7 (height) x 12.9 (width) x 0.6 (depth)

Synopsis:

I n 2021, supported by Creative Scotland, the Re·creation project invited anyone in Scotland and the UK to write poems, develop their craft, and build a community through workshops, round-table feedback and 1-to-1 mentorship. The project took its inspiration from Audre Lorde, and its title from her poem of the same name, placing roots in play, refreshment, recovery, restoration and creativity. The Re·creation anthology contains new work from nearly 30 writers of the LGBT+ community across the UK, including Joelle Taylor, Mary Jean Chan, Nat Raha, Harry Josephine Giles, Patience Agbabi, Christopher Whyte, Dean Atta, Jay Gao, and Andrew McMillan.

The poets in Re:creation make up a new and vivid constellation. This is a bright, interlocking anthology that focuses a clear light on experiments from new and established voices. The poems here are full of exciting suppositions, recoveries, and together make a collective language strong enough to shine the way to new possibilities for queer poetry, bringing us closer to a place where the air, as Andres N. Ordorica has it, is ‘renewed and free’.
– Seán Hewitt

In this powerful and affecting anthology, queer experience – and queer poetics – are brought to life with complexity, vividness, beauty and formal innovation. An anthology that allows richness, shuts down no question, and offers the reader a selection of the very best queer poets at work today.
– Alice Tarbuck

LGBT Themes:

• Queer

Relevant Tags:

Poetry, Collection, Verse, Spoken Word, Anthology, Anthologies, United Kingdom, Queer, LGBT