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In Bibi June's Kinsey Scale, our lives are not represented by rigid numbers, but by poetry on queer love, happiness, protest, friendships, and the ability of queers to adapt to a changing world. Our rituals, our families, our romances, there is place for all of them in this tale of resilience and joy.

Life Goals of the Millennials: or The Commune Manifesto is about growing up queer and not growing out of it. In The Commune we champion platonic love and commitment.

My Body Is A Resource I Am Willing To Expend is a story of becoming: of learning what it means to care and be cared for, to love and be loved.

Adapted from a spoken word solo show, Chosen Family by ibizo Iami is a raw but gentle story of recovery and strength.

Moving through moods and atmospheres (Passion, Anger, Joy, Nature/ The Sea, Melancholy, Philosophical/ Mystical, and finally Whimsy), this is is a book intended to be read in a number of different ways. Not so much a pick-your-own-adventure book, Spectral is an experience Fay is looking forward to sharing with you.

What's it like to navigate between worlds anchored in different dimensions? DL Williams is an interdimensional traveller, moving through the 2D audiocentric world inhabited by the peculiar 'hearing people' while negotiating the fantastical 3D worldshaped by sign language and those who wield it.

This is a book of poetry: half human, half emergency. It's about what it means to be alive and angry and afraid.

Five new poems from Deanna Rodger. Each one inspired by one of Kevin Elyot's plays: Coming Clean, Forty Winks, And Then There Were None, Perfect Moment, Twilight Song.

Nigrescence is the breakthrough debut collection of poems by northern poet Abdullah Adekola. The word 'nigrescence' means to develop a racial identity which Adekola unpicks through language that tugs and pulls through his own blackness, searching for ways to heal in a increasingly fractured world.

The debut collection from Muneera Pilgrim explores belonging, spirituality, gender race and identity as well as themes of girlhood, pop cultural, familial bonds and crushes, against the back drop of London and Bristol streets steeped colonial power structures that still live on. Despite that this collection is a story of labouring love.

This Is Not Therapy is an infectious rebel shout-out to the healing power of art, and contends that no person or day is exempt from an interesting story.

On the radio they said that Hans Christian Andersen wrote the Little Mermaid whilst he was avoiding the wedding of the person he loved. I thought 'that doesn't sound like a story that involves singing lobsters'.

Please Do Not Touch asks important questions about these things, about the world and the lives that they have shaped. How have the ill gotten gains of colonialism shaped our society today? How does the noise of the crimes of the past reverberate into our present day soundscape?

A paraplegic wakes to find he is the sole survivor of an unknown apocalypse. He decides to survive and spends a year navigating the empty motorways of England to see if he really is the only one left alive. He sets off with only his wheelchair and enough food and medical supplies to last a week. To live beyond that he must adapt and scavenge.

Political, funny, heart-breaking, I Find My Strength In Simple Things is an exploration of growth, chaos and relationships.

Dating & Other Hobbies is a collection of female-centred poetry and short stories from spoken word artist Cat Hepburn (#GIRLHOOD), offering up a uniquely humorous and poignant exploration of modern relationships and dating culture.

Yay! Is a collection of upbeat poems for uncertain times, poems of imagination and escape, whimsy and warmth, humanity and honesty.

Rob Gee worked for twelve years as a mental health nurse before becoming a stand-up poet. When his career as a performer was interrupted by COVID-19, he returned to nursing. The Day My Head Exploded shares the debris of life as a nurse, an inpatient and a writer.

"Complete and Utter Cult!" tackles everything from the pernicious effects of the patriarchy to disappearing rainforests via Brexit milkshakes and a pandemic. Yes, all the feel-good hits are here, fully annotated with the innermost thoughts from the canyons of Elvis' mind as he banged away on his typewriter at The Graceland Caravan Park.

A stunning debut collection from BBC commissioned, queer poet Bethany Rose.

This is a book about being trapped in the Meanwhile. Walking through seemingly perpetual journeys between borders, genders, nationalities and social status. As a product of mixing races, yet not mixed race. Inhabiting a large body of before with no clear sense of an after.

Spirograph traces the recurring patterns in life and language. The quest to in control versus the need for change. What happens when change is forced and unwelcome? What of beauty in the unremarkable? The collection is packed with stories, landscapes and musicality.

Manatomy is a collection of wry, witty and cheeky poems exploring how nature, nurture, pop culture, prejudice and politics shape the identity of camp gay man James McDermott.

What We Leave Behind How do we remember those who have died? Why are we so attached to their stuff?Have you ever pictured your own funeral? Erin has. She's pictured yours too.

Circles is an epic poem inspired by Sarah Kane's 4.48 Psychosis. Taking the point of view of a suicide victim's lover in the play post-death...

Alternate Endings is a collection of poems made of worry and hope. With wit and warmth, Erin looks for the beginnings in endings as she confides her stories of living, loving, feeling and fretting.

The poems in this collection question received wisdom, playfully unravelling the awkward and the bizarre aspects of modern life. Leanne's poetry is an exploration of human failures and resilience, the things that make us angry, and the things that make us laugh.

Not Dancing with Ingrid Pit is an honest and personal collection capturing missed opportunities, those unstructured moments and nostalgic, half recalled memories which skulk at the periphery of an increasingly confusing current world state.

Tales from the Other Box looks to blend the traditions of minstrel, bard and griot, to paint itself all at once the voice of old soul elder, trickster motif, and the teller of the tale.