Romancero Books is pleased to invite you to A Queer Poetry Reading III + a Photo Book Launch with Peter Scalpello, Golnoosh Nour, Keith Jarrett, Eevee and Anna Faux.

To celebrate LGBT+ History Month, join us for an evening of queer poetry with 3 authors (Peter Scalpello, Golnoosh Nour, and Keith Jarrett) who were included in the anthology 100 Queer poems, edited by Mary Jean Chan and Andrew McMillan at Vintage and launched in September 2022. We will welcome the debut of musician Eevee who will read some of their poems and Anna Faux will introduce us to the photo book titled Same Same But Different published in 2022 in Madrid.

Tickets - https://www.outsavvy.com/event/11866/a-queer-poetry-reading-ii-photobook-launch

“This year marks 20 years since Section 28 was repealed. This law, which banned the “promotion of homosexuality” in the UK was an attach on LGBTQ+ visibility”.  https://www.stonewall.org.uk/our-work/campaigns/lgbt-history-month-2023

Peter Scalpello is a queer poet and therapist from Glasgow. Their work has appeared in Five Dials, Granta, The London Magazine and The New York Times, among other publications. Their first collection, Limbic, is published by Cipher Press. Twitter @p_scalpello.

Golnoosh Nour is the author of the Ministry of Guidance and Rocksong - both shortlisted for the Polari Prize. She teaches Literature and Creative Writing at the University of Reading.

Keith Jarrett is a poet, fiction writer, playwright, and educator. He is the author of the poetry collection Selah (Burning Eye Books, 2017), the play Safest Spot in Town (2017), as well as the poetry pamphlet I Speak Home (Eyewear, 2015).

Eevee is a musician and musical instrument accessibility researcher from Valencia and based in London since 2011. They have been writing poetry since they were first sectioned under the mental health act in 2016. Their writing is an attempt at playful exploration of the paradoxes of the mind, queer love and kink, grief for the dying planet, and the polarity between free will and the force of destiny, which drives us towards infinity. 

Anna Fux is a queer German-Filipina visual artist, editor and writer. Her practice intersects cultural criticism, photography and social justice movements. Fux co-founded Pai Pai Mag, the first online magazine for the spanish speaking Asian diaspora. In 2021 she was one of the artists in residency at Matadero Madrid, which resulted in her photobook Same Same But Different published in 2022.

Tickets - https://www.outsavvy.com/event/11866/a-queer-poetry-reading-ii-photobook-launch

Copies of the books 100 Queer poems, Limbic, Ministry of Guidance, and Same Same But Different will be available for purchasing at the end of the event.

Please note we only accept card payments.

Warm thanks to our favourite queer café in Dalston, Atlas Grinds and to our beloved graphic designer - John Philip Sage.

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