Poet Jane Aldous and editor Cherry Potts discuss Jane’s poetry collection, Let Out the Djinn, editing, poetry and cats…
you can buy Let out the Djinn (on sale throughout August) from our Webshop.
Just put in ARACHNEVERSARY at checkout to get your discount.
Videos from the launch of Let Out the Djinn, debut poetry collection by Jane Aldous, at Lighthouse Radical bookshop, Edinburgh, with readings from Jane herself, and friends Lindy Barbour and Simon Maclaren
part 2: from prehistory to space…
Lindy Barbour reads Doggerland
Jane reads A Dead Lamb in Polbain
Simon Maclaren reads Crow’s Eye
Lindy Barbour reads Eel Ghazal
Jane reads Goodbye Voyager 1
Videos from the launch of Let Out the Djinn, debut poetry collection by Jane Aldous, at Lighthouse Radical bookshop, Edinburgh, with readings from Jane herself, and friends Lindy Barbour and Simon Maclaren
part 1: Family and identity
Simon Maclaren reads Dave Off in Five – inspired by Jane’s Dad’s war time diary.
Jane reads Let Out the Djinn, the title poem – the title came first!
Jane reads With Meme at Mellon Urdigle Beach
Lindy Barbour reads Death Waiting
Jane reads In the New Leaf Co-op
more tomorrow…
11th November is National Coming Out Day. We like to tie in our LGBT titles to this day when we can. (Or history month in February!)
Yesterday we published Let Out the Djinn, by Jane Aldous, and tomorrow we are launching this delightful debut collection of poems in Edinburgh.
Not in Edinburgh? buy a copy here!
Three years ago we published Outcome by Tom Dingley to coincide with Coming Out Day, and we have now permanently reducing the price of this book of 80 photographic portraits buy your copy here for £15
Other LGBT poetry titles:
LGBT Fiction
Happy Publication day, to Jane Aldous, as her debut poetry collection, Let out the Djinn hits the streets.
See you at Lighthouse Radical Bookshop in Edinburgh at 5pm on Saturday
Cake in preparation
It’s National Poetry Day, and the theme this year is Truth.
To celebrate, here is a poem from Jane Aldous’s debut poetry collection, Let Out the Djinn, which is (let) out next week, on 10th October 2019.
How it was
Parcelled up in waistcoat and gun belt,
I killed every adult at point blank range.
I wandered out in sea-fog and kissed
a girl in a concrete shelter.
I searched the Bible and dictionaries
for someone like me.
With acne raging I bought chocolates
for the groundkeeper’s daughter.
I wrote to Woman’s Own.
Miss Crocker, the Chemistry teacher
played cricket for England, wore black leathers
and rode a 1500cc but for a while,
my heart belonged to Mrs Dunball
our English teacher.
I wondered if Miss Crocker and Miss Mulvaney
lived together and if they did, did anyone mind?
One day I told the groundkeeper’s daughter
I loved her and she said don’t be silly.
After that I kissed girls in draughty flats, cars,
and on sticky dance floors.
I read The Well of Loneliness as a rite of passage.
I had words for who I was and didn’t like them.
I didn’t like the poisonous letter, being sent
for a healing, or reading Miss A loves Miss D
chalked on the blackboard, or my mother shouting
It’s all about bed isn’t it! or Clause 28.
I never wanted a name to describe myself,
never wanted to feel: less than, unentitled.
And now looking back, my ghosts seem like
standing stones, silent crows,
they’ve done their worst, they’re only stories
now.
Join us at the launch, with readings and cake, at Lighthouse bookshop in Edinburgh at 5pm on the 12th October.
Here is the trailer for Let Out the Djinn by Jane Aldous – her debut poetry collection.
We are taking pre-orders for our advance copies now, but the book isn’t in the shops until 10th October, launching Lighthouse Bookshop Edinburgh, 12th October at 5pm.
