I can safely say I never expected to share an anthology with Sappho & Oscar Wilde!
So I’m thrilled my story ‘You’ll Do’ is featured in ‘Queer: LGBTQ Writing from Ancient Times to Yesterday’ edited by Frank Wynne.
https://headofzeus.com/books/9781789542332
Queer is an unabashed and unapologetic anthology, drawing together writing from Catullus to Sappho, from Rimbaud to Anaïs Nin, and from Armistead Maupin to Alison Bechdel, translator Frank Wynne has collected a hundred of the finest works representing queer love by LGBTQ authors.
Queer straddles the spectrum of queer experience, from Verlaine's sonnet in praise of his lover's anus and Emily Dickinson's exhortation of a woman's beauty, to Alison Bechdel's graphic novel of her coming out, Juno Dawson's reflections on gender and Oscar Wilde's 'De Profundis'.
Location: The Treehouse (top floor),
Berrick Saul Building,
Humanities Research Centre,
Harewood Way, Heslington,
University of York
York YO10 5DD
Monday 24 October 2022, 6.00PM
Free event
Writers at York and the department of English and Related Literature are proud to host this special poetry reading and launch event, in honour of 100 Queer Poems - an anthology edited by Mary Jean Chan and Andrew McMillan and published earlier this year by Vintage.
100 Queer Poems, is a celebration of thrilling contemporary voices and visionary poets of the past. Questioning and redefining what we mean by a 'queer' poem, it includes classics alongside thrilling new voices.
For this York event, readers will include Vahni (Anthony Ezekiel) Capildeo, Kit Fan, Rosie Garland, Nathan Walker, JT Welsch, and the book's co-editor Andrew McMillan. Readings will be accompanied by a discussion of the book and contemporary queer poetry.
https://www.york.ac.uk/english/news-events/events/2022/readinglaunchevent100queerpoems/