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Re·creation: A Queer Poetry Anthology
Re·creation, inspired by the Audre Lorde poem of the same name, is a project offering publication, workshops, feedback, and mentorship to queer poets in the UK. The title has its roots in play, refreshment, recovery, restoration, invigoration, and creating, all of which are long overdue in a Covid-affected world, particularly for those in the LGBTQIA+ community.
Headliner poets include:
Mary Jean Chan, Andrew McMillan, Dean Atta,
Harry Josephine Giles, Nat Raha, Jay Gao,
Christopher Whyte, Joelle Taylor, and Patience Agbabi.
‘An Octagonal Mirror,’ generously lent to the project by Benny Nemer.
Their ‘Intimate Confederacy’
After my MLitt dissertation, I wrote on my research for the Times Literary Supplement, looking back at the WWI poets Siegfried Sassoon and Wilfred Owen: ‘You did not light me: I was always a mad comet; but you have fixed me. I spun round you a satellite for a month, but I shall swing out soon, a dark star in the orbit where you will blaze.’
Louis MacNeice & Ireland
Following my PhD thesis, and the discovery of a little-known play by MacNeice archived in the New York Public Library, I shared a commentary on his work and life as an Irish emigrant in London at the start of World War Two.