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Tag: queer love

Life’s A Butch & extracts from An Attempt At Exhausting An Undergraduate Essay by JP Seabright

17th July 202220th July 2022  JP Seabright

JP Seabright captures the excitement and ‘gay abandon’ of queer love in ‘Life’s A Butch’ and treats us to a selection of gorgeous visual poems and collages from their upcoming collection, An Attempt At Exhausting An Undergraduate Essay.

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Posted in Creative Writing, PoetryTagged: collage, Jeanette Winterson, JP Seabright, My Body's Bodies Editorial, poems, Poetry, poets, queer love

Interview with author Sara Jaffe: ‘I wanted to think about queerness in a really close and experiential way that precedes a coming-out moment’

2nd November 20213rd November 2021  Anna Kate Blair

Anna Kate Blair talks to author Sara Jaffe about why Dryland is an anti-coming-out novel, writers who have influenced her work, being published by the Queer UK-based Independent publisher Cipher Press, leaning into the awkwardness of writing about adolescence, music and much more.

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Posted in Arts, Books, InterviewsTagged: Anna Kate Blair, anti-coming-of-age-novel, Baroque, BAROQUE Guest Editorial, Cipher Press, Denton Welch, Gwendolyn Brooks, Leanne Shapton, Lynne Tillman, Novel, queer literature, queer love, Queer Relationships, Sara Jaffe, swimming

‘Lalita Speaks’ by Basudhara Roy

29th September 202129th September 2021  Basudhara Roy

Dancing milkmaids surround Krishna, but it’s not the Hindu deity they’re excited to be around. In Basudhara Roy’s gorgeous and erotically tinged poem, bodies undress and dissolve to the music of their own longing.

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Posted in Creative Writing, PoetryTagged: Baroque, BAROQUE Guest Editorial, Basudhara Roy, Gopis, Hindu Deities, Hinduism, Krishna, Poetry, queer love

‘Writing Michael with You’ by Jess Moody

15th July 202116th July 2021  Jess Moody

In this gorgeously giddy piece, Jess Moody revels in the queer aestheticism and poetic freedom of Michael Field’s Works and Days.

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Posted in Creative Writing, Flash FictionTagged: Baroque, BAROQUE Guest Editorial, Creative Writing, Jess Moody, Michael Field, Queer Art, queer literature, queer love, Queer Relationships, Sappho

Diary of a Film by Niven Govinden – a ‘skin to eye’ portrait of queer love, cinema and la dolce vita

23rd February 2021  Kathryn Cutler-MacKenzie

Niven Govinden’s latest novel, Diary of a Film, is a love letter to the art of cinema, a sensuous portrayal of the relationships occurring behind the camera as well as on-screen.

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Posted in Arts, BooksTagged: cinema, Dialogue Books, Diary of a Film, Federico Fellini, Film, Krzysztof Zanussi, La Dolce Vita, Niven Govinden, Novel, queer love, The Folded Leaf, The Structure of Crystal, This Brutal House, William Maxwell
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