Up // Roar: Poems Of Queer Resistance by Cherry Pots & Jeremy Dixon

Arachne Press has long been a champion of LGBTQ+ writers, and our first anthology of LGBTQ+ poetry Joy//Us, was something of a hit! It was a strange moment, publishing joyful poems, that celebrated all that is best about our community/ies and lives. Times have moved on fast and here we are now with Up//Roar Poems of Queer Resistance.

So what is that? Coming out as Queer Resistance! Living bold as Queer Resistance! Pushing back as Queer Resistance! Shouting out as Queer Resistance!

featuring poems from Abhi, Abu Leila, Alyson Hallett, Arun Jeetoo, Carmina Masoliver, Cherry Potts, Claire Hennessy, Conway Emmett, Cynthia Rodríguez Juárez, Dave Wakely, Deviji RM Jaan, Donna Nì Conor, Elizabeth Gibson, Ella Otomewo, Em Gray, Emily Hay, Eve Xin, Finnley Kneller, Gwenhwyfar Ferch Rhys, Heather Chapman, Jamie Fearn, Jane Aldous, Jeremy Dixon, Joshua Linney, Kate Foley, Khushi, Maria Jastrzebska, Mel Chilekwa, Mohammed Barber, Nathan Evans, P Burton-Morgan, Paz Kaiba, Rab Green, Rachael Clyne, Rachel Brook, Rachel Cain, Rick Dove, Robert Hamberger, Robin Campbell, Rowan Carteret, Simon Maddrell, Steph Morris, Teddy Mills, Vron McIntyre, Zo Copeland

Showing up as Queer Resistance! Knowing history as Queer Resistance! Doing the work as Queer Resistance! Politics as Queer Resistance! Creativity as Queer Resistance! The exclamation mark as Queer Resistance!Now is the time for Queer Resistance!

Paperback / 79 Pages