5 top poetry picks for LGBTQI+ History Month
February in the UK is LGBTQI+ History Month, and to mark it the national Poetry Library has gathered together a celebration of LGBTQI+ poetry in their eloan collection.
This celebratory group includes poets of the past such as Sappho, Walt Whitman and Cavafy, and their poems are as essential and vivid as the most recent debuts in the collection by exciting new talents, Jay Bernard, Mary Jean Chan and Phoebe Stuckes.
With ‘Body, Mind, Spirit’ being the theme of this year’s LGBTQI+ History Month, our National Poetry Librarians have picked out these five works from the collection that capture some of these aspects.
When I Grow Up I Want to Be a List of Further Possibilities by Chen Chen
Flèche by Mary Jean Chan
Blazons: New and Selected Poems, 2000-2018 by Marilyn Hacker
New Selected Poems by Edwin Morgan
Physical by Andrew McMillan
Beyond these five selections there are a huge number of other anthologies, titles and pamphlets in the National Poetry Library. Take a look at the full collection the library has pulled together in celebration of LGBTQI+ History Month on the website.
NPL LGBTQI+ History Month collection
The National Poetry Library’s eloan collection consists of ebooks and audio freely accessible to anyone resident in the UK.
Please email [email protected] to receive your password and start to access over 850 titles.