Category: Poetry

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The Muse of the Violets: Poems by Renée Vivien

Renée Vivien | The Muse of the Violets: Poems | This is the first time Renee Vivien’s poetry has been available to English-speaking readers. Lavishly praised by critics in the early years of the twe

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Moods by Mercedes De Acosta

Mercedes De Acosta | Moods | From the introduction: ‘There is a happy gift revealed in these little pastels, vignettes, or whatever one wishes to name such fragments that Miss de

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The Beautiful by Michelle Tea

Michelle Tea | The Beautiful |

‘Tea writes with a raw-hearted, wry but wide-eyed ebullience, rendering dyke bohemia with intense, gritty, glittering romanticism.’-The San Fran

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Night When Moon Follows by Cheryl Boyce Taylor

Cheryl Boyce Taylor | Night When Moon Follows | Poetry, Caribbean Literature, Living with Diabetes

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My Body by Joan Larkin

Joan Larkin | My Body | Review

For nearly 40 years, Joan Larkin has written poems that stake out a territory of relentless self-examination, taking on love and death, fam

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Sleeping Upside Down by Kate Lynn Hibbard

Kate Lynn Hibbard | Sleeping Upside Down | ‘Kate Lynn Hibbard’s SLEEPING UPSIDE DOWN is a beautiful book of poetry, composed in well-crafted and pleasing cadences, sharing a vision of sexualit

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A Distant Footstep on the Plain by Stephanie Byrd

Stephanie Byrd | A Distant Footstep on the Plain | A Distant Footstep on the Plain is a collection of poetry at its finest, its most ragged and painful, and its most hopeful. The primary focus is on th

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Cracks by Lilian Mohin

Lilian Mohin | Cracks | Reprint of an early collection of 20 poems 1974-75, produced at the Camberwell School of Art & Craft on art paper with string ties – Mohin is a lesbia

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Child Of Myself by Pat Parker

Pat Parker | Child Of Myself | Early collection by African American lesbian poet whose works are hard to find. First printing was by Shameless Hussy Press

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Sybil: The Glide of Her Tongue by Gillian E. Hanscombe

Gillian E. Hanscombe | Sybil: The Glide of Her Tongue | Lesbians are often told that we have no culture, that we have no history, and yet lesbians are always rediscovering hidden histories, literary traditi