Joy//Us at the Poetry Pharmacy (London)
24 July 2024, 18:30-20.00
Poetry Pharmacy 175-179 Oxford St, London, W1D 2JS
We are honoured that Joy//Us: Poems of Queer Joy has been chosen for the FIRST EVER event at Poetry Pharmacy‘s new shop above Lush on Oxford Street.
join us for joyful poems that celebrate all that is best about our community/ies and lives. This is not an ‘explain it to the straights’ book, this is for us. LGBTQ+ readers can open this book at random and find a moment of poetic queer joy for themselves, however big or small.
These poems find joy in the simplest (or most complex) things. Love, sex, a quiet night in, dancing with friends, nurturing of and from our community, recognition from allies, a welcome from strangers, celebrating our cultural icons… the identity-affirming haircut, the right jeans, books, walking, food, flint-knapping… and political action.
Our live events are just as wide-ranging and joyful.
Line Up currently Abhi, Cherry Potts, Dean Atta, JP Seabright, Rick Dove, Tanya Erin Sheehan, Tom McLaughlin. Tickets £9.30 includes £3 discount off purchase of Joy//Us, and refreshments, ( or potions and poisons, as The Pharmacy call them)
