First published 2024
Andrew McMillan assembles one hundred poems that trace the contours of queer experience across time and geography. The collection spans anonymous folk verses to contemporary works, drawing from voices both celebrated and forgotten. McMillan selects pieces that capture desire, identity, loss, and joy without reducing them to political statements or historical artifacts. The anthology includes work from established poets alongside lesser-known writers whose words deserve wider recognition. Each poem stands as testimony to the persistence of queer expression across cultures and centuries. The collection offers readers a literary map of how queer voices have found ways to speak, even when silence was demanded. McMillan's curation reveals the threads connecting past and present, showing how themes of love, belonging, and defiance echo across generations of writers who dared to put their truths on paper.
Genres: anthologies, poetry, 21st-century
Vibes: atmospheric, emotional, intimate, lyrical
Tropes: found-family, persistence
Period: Across Time, Across Geography
192 pages · Paperback · PENGUIN UK