Up//Roar: Poems of Queer Resistance
Arachne Press has long been a champion of LGBTQ+ writers, and our first anthology of LGBTQ+ poetry Joy//Us, was something of a hit! It was a strange moment, publishing joyful poems, that celebrated all that is best about our community/ies and lives. Times have moved on fast and here we are now with Up//Roar Poems of Queer Resistance.
So what is that? Coming out as Queer Resistance! Living bold as Queer Resistance! Pushing back as Queer Resistance! Shouting out as Queer Resistance!
featuring poems from Abhi, Abu Leila, Alyson Hallett, Arun Jeetoo, Carmina Masoliver, Cherry Potts, Claire Hennessy, Conway Emmett, Cynthia Rodríguez Juárez, Dave Wakely, Deviji RM Jaan, Donna Nì Conor, Elizabeth Gibson, Ella Otomewo, Em Gray, Emily Hay, Eve Xin, Finnley Kneller, Gwenhwyfar Ferch Rhys, Heather Chapman, Jamie Fearn, Jane Aldous, Jeremy Dixon, Joshua Linney, Kate Foley, Khushi, Maria Jastrzebska, Mel Chilekwa, Mohammed Barber, Nathan Evans, P Burton-Morgan, Paz Kaiba, Rab Green, Rachael Clyne, Rachel Brook, Rachel Cain, Rick Dove, Robert Hamberger, Robin Campbell, Rowan Carteret, Simon Maddrell, Steph Morris, Teddy Mills, Vron McIntyre, Zo Copeland
Showing up as Queer Resistance! Knowing history as Queer Resistance! Doing the work as Queer Resistance! Politics as Queer Resistance! Creativity as Queer Resistance! The exclamation mark as Queer Resistance! Now is the time for Queer Resistance!
Jeremy Dixon
Jeremy Dixon is a poet and maker of Artist’s Books. He was born in Essex and moved to the Vale of Glamorgan as a teenager, living there for over 45 years. His poetry has appeared in Butcher’s Dog, Found Poetry Review, HIV Here & Now, Impossible Archetype, Lighthouse Journal, Anti-Heroin Chic, Roundyhouse and other print and online magazines. He has been published several times by Arachne Press, including his debut pamphlet IN RETAIL (2019) and in the recent bilingual Welsh/English anthology, A470: Poems for the Road/Cerddi’r Ffordd (2022). We published Jeremy’s first full collection, A Voice Coming From Then in August 2021 and it WON the poetry category for Wales Book of the Year English Language Poetry…