Queer Literature

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Hymnswitch

Hymnswitch

Shortlisted, Dorothy Livesay Poetry Prize Four years ago, Ali Blythe arrived with Twoism, a remarkable debut collection, every line shimmering with life and shivering with erotically charged … 72 View
I Can Hear You, Can You Hear Me?

I Can Hear You, Can You Hear Me?

Intimate, nostalgic, and surprising, the poems in I Can Hear You, Can You Hear Me? spark connections that alter trajectory and carry lasting resonance. Encounters across phone lines, over drinks, … 89 View
I Hope We Choose Love

I Hope We Choose Love

A Trans Girl's Notes From the End of the World

What can we hope for at the end of the world? What can we trust in when community has broken our hearts? What would it mean to pursue justice without violence? How can we love in the absence of … 156 View
Love After the End

Love After the End

An Anthology of Two-Spirit and Indigiqueer Speculative Fiction

Lambda Literary Award winner A bold and breathtaking anthology of queer Indigenous speculative fiction, edited by the author of Jonny Appleseed. This exciting and groundbreaking fiction … 192 View
Lyric Sexology

Lyric Sexology

Vol. 1

2018 Dayne Ogilvie Prize for LGBTQ Emerging Writers, Finalist Largely written before the current cultural visibility of trans lit, Lyric Sexology Vol. 1 iwas Salah’s prescient contribution to a … 186 View
Myself a Paperclip
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Myself a Paperclip

Leaving a drawer open in here is like leaving your fly undone is like letting a scab hang off a healing wound. In Myself A Paperclip, Finlay sketches the internal self and the external whir of … 80 View
Mythical Man
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Mythical Man

In Mythical Man, David Ly builds, and then tears down, an army of men in a quest to explore personhood in the 21st century. Tenderness, toxic masculinity, nuances of queer love, and questions of … 80 View
Nought
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Nought

Nought, a new collection of poetry from Governor General’s Literary Award finalist Julie Joosten, explores the intersections of body, identity, and love. These poems, in all their passions, … 148 View
Personal Attention Roleplay
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Personal Attention Roleplay

Stories

A young gymnast crushes on an older, more talented teammate while contending with her overworked mother. A newly queer twenty-something juggles two intimate relationships—with a slippery … 218 View
Poetry Is Queer
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Poetry Is Queer

Poetry is Queer is a kaleidoscope of sexual outlaws, gay icons, Sapphic poets, and great lovers—real and imagined—conjured like gateway drugs to a queer world. Claiming the word … 231 View
Polari

Polari

"Polari," from the Italian "polare" ("to talk") is a coded language, originating in the UK and dating as far back as the 16th century. Overheard in outdoor markets, … 128 View
Queer Little Nightmares
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Queer Little Nightmares

An Anthology of Monstrous Fiction and Poetry

The fiction and poetry of Queer Little Nightmares reimagines monsters old and new through a queer lens, subverting the horror gaze to celebrate ideas and identities canonically feared in monster … ; 215 View
Queers Like Me
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Queers Like Me

Confessional and immersive, Michael V. Smith’s latest collection is a broad tapestry that explores growing up queer and working class, then growing into an urban queer life. In these poems, … 149 View
Ritual Lights

Ritual Lights

On "A Girl Like This Might Have Loved Glenn Gould": "The poem sits up at its greasy-spoon counter and recounts its tale, a kind of cryptic plain-speech, an inverted code, all the … 88 View
Smaller Hours

Smaller Hours

Stately and majestic, yet scuffed with wear and disillusion, the poems of Smaller Hours mount the sky like columns and fora of some archaic ruin. Through these ancient halls, Kevin Shaw tracks … 80 View
Swollening
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Swollening

A tender debut poetry collection that examines the queer, sick body as a reaction to an ill world and asks it how to move on toward hope. Jason Purcell’s debut collection of poems rests at … 113 View