Somewhere There Is A Sky For Us by Various, foreword by Joelle Taylor collected works the role of language

the role of language

‘Repressive regimes tend to have little problem acknowledging poets’ power to shape our opinions and our world

Les Murray (1938-2019) was awarded the Queen's Gold Medal for Poetry at the nomination of Ted Hughes (1999) and won the T

Carlina Duan

widowhood and ageing co-exist with observations of her wild garden and its inhabitants

Somewhere There Is A Sky For Us by Various, foreword by Joelle Taylor collected works the role of languagePublished 16th October 2025. This omnibus anthology contains the commissioned work from the eighteen excellent queer poets (nine from India and nine for the UK) who have made up the three cohorts of the Language Is A Queer Thing development project from 2022 to 2024 along with a new poem from each of the six poets who then appeared in our celebratory 2025 project. The aim was to create new poetry on the queer experience and the investigate the