Issue 8 is here!

This hot pink stunner is here and we can’t wait for you to fall in love with these fourteen poems. This time around, we’ve got poets from the UK, US, Ireland, Trinidad, India, Germany and Mexico covering everything from gender, love, legacy, HIV discrimination, sex and more.

As always, some of our poets are award winning while others are brand new, never-before been published. There’s experimental work alongside more traditional forms; poems written about lived experience matched with more imagined moments. Of course, all fourteen deal with different aspects of modern queer life. We hope you love them all.

Drum roll please - here’s your fourteen poems:

man by Sanah Ahsan

Né by James Davis

Poem for Rotting Fruit by Umang Kalra

Desire Path by Jack Cooper

I Still Sleep with the Man Who Asks if I’m Clean by Dare Williams

Tusk by Joseph Monaghan

Is My Body Mine by Piero Toto

Gem by Kathryn O’Driscoll

local by Deborah Finding

incision by Raphael Koranda

notes from (just over) the edge by Elizabeth Train-Brown

Why I Will Not Get Out of Bed by Andrés N Ordorica

in which the closet is the shell by Tonya Johnson

Dictionary For Love by Ashish Kumar Singh