Joy//Us launches…
We just got news that we have ACE funding for these events, which is a massive relief!
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. We are expecting the launch to be just as wide-ranging and joyful.
The poems in the book 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.
JOY//US online launch 17th May 7pm, Free Tickets
featuring readings from: Abhi, Aoife Mannix, Cherry Potts, Conway Emmett, Dean Atta, Desree, Elizabeth Chadwick Pywell, Elizabeth Gibson, Garnett ‘Ratte’ Frost, Jeremy Dixon, Joshua Jones, JP Seabright, K. Angel, Laurie B., Maria Jastrzębska, Mwelwa Chilekwa, P Burton-Morgan, Robert Hamberger, Steph Morris, Tanya Erin Sheehan, Tom McLaughlin, Vron McIntyre, Zo Copeland
JOY//US London Launch: Hosted by Roundtable Books Location: Brixton Village Studios – 404-406 Coldharbour Lane, Brixton SW9 8LF Map
23rd May 7pm with readings from Abhi, Alexander Williams, Becky Brookfield, Cherry Potts, Elizabeth Gibson, JP Seabright, Jeremy Dixon, P Burton-Morgan, Rick Dove, Sophia Blackwell, Steph Morris, Tanya Erin Sheehan,Tom McLaughlin, Zo Copeland. Tickets £8 please pre-book!
JOY//US 24th May 7pm Brighton Launch The Queery 46 George St, BN2 1RJ
Abhi, Becky Brookfield, Cherry Potts, Jeremy Dixon, John McCullough, JP Seabright,
K. Angel, Elizabeth Gibson, Maria Jastrzębska, Rick Dove, Robert Hamberger, Sophia Blackwell, Zo Copeland. free Tickets limited number only – 25! please prebook!
and because it’s the first and I usually miss things because i don’t always turn the calendar page over in time…
JUNE
JOY//US Welsh launch Cardiff Library The Hayes Cardiff CF10 1FL
1st June 12 noon Free Tickets
Join poets from Arachne Press to celebrate the publication of Byways: Poems and Stories on Foot, and Joy//Us: Poems of Queer Joy
A Saturday lunchtime treat for those not going to that London for the big match!
Byways explores places you can only get to on foot, whether it’s the shortcut to the chip shop or a day out on the hills.
Readings from Sara Louise Wheeler (in Welsh), Cath Humphris and Des Mannay
Joy//Us is an unapologetic explosion of joy from LGBTQ+ poets across the UK: what makes us happy? Everything from dancing to flint-knapping.
readings from Cherry Potts, Joshua Jones, Garnett Frost and Zo Copeland.