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AS GIRLS COULD BOAST Poetry by women edited by Christina Dunhill. ISBN 1-872668-03-8 112 pages Published 1994 £7.99. Post and Packing: £1.50 A collection of poetry by women, selected for originality and risk. Provocative, poignant, humorous, erotic, a showcase for some of the best in women's poetry in the late 20th century. Including poems by Carol Ann Duffy, U.A. Fanthorpe, Alison Fell, Selima Hill, Jackie Kay, Mimi Khalvati and many new writers of whom we shall hear more. "Fresh and uncommon" — Kate Kellaway, The Observer. Sample poems Or, click here to pay in $ US dollars.

JUGULAR DEFENCES An AIDS anthology edited by Peter Daniels and Steve Anthony. ISBN 1-872668-04-6 112 pages Published 1994 £7.99. Post and Packing: £1.50 "Grief, anger, fear and desire... In this book the poetry of HIV is as immediate as an activist's T-shirt and as piercing as a lyric from the Greek anthology" — Adam Mars-Jones. Including poetry by Thom Gunn, Penelope Shuttle, Edwin Morgan, Michael Lassell and Assoto Saint. Sample poems Or, click here to pay in $ US dollars.

LANGUAGE OF WATER LANGUAGE OF FIRE A celebration of lesbian and gay poetry edited by Berta Freistadt & Pat O'Brien. ISBN 1-872668-01-1 78 pages Published 1992 £5.99. Post and Packing: £1.50 "A fresh exciting collection with a wide-angled lens, from the concerns of the city waitress to fears of coming out, this poetry crosses boundaries but doesn't forget to laugh. A confident collection that captures the many varied voices of gay writing today" — Jackie Kay Sample poems Or, click here to pay in $ US dollars.

OF EROS AND OF DUST Poems from the City edited by Steve Anthony. ISBN 1-872668-02-x 88 pages Published 1992 £5.99. Post and Packing: £1.50 "Forget A-Z's and town plans — this book is a real map of the city: full of women and men writing to explain and writing to stay alive in this dirty, muddled, aggressive, and sometimes beautiful reality of life in the '90s" — Ian McMillan Sample poems Or, click here to pay in $ US dollars.

WHATEVER YOU DESIRE A book of lesbian poetry edited by Mary Jo Bang. ISBN 0-9512581-9-2 80 pages Published 1990 £4.95. Post and Packing: £1.50 All of the poems in this book write about "how it feels". In doing so, they add their testimony to a growing literary tradition, a tradition which speaks with honesty and eloquence of our deepest desires. "A beautiful, celebratory, sexy book" — Michèle Roberts Sample poems Or, click here to pay in $ US dollars.

TAKE ANY TRAIN A book of gay men's poetry edited by Peter Daniels. ISBN 1-872668-00-3 64 pages Published 1990 £4.95. Post and Packing: £1.50 "In the past, the homoerotic in poetry had to be more or less coded, and it still can be ignored by many readers and critics of Marlowe, Auden, and all but the most outrageous of Rimbaud's lyrics and prose-poems. Today there are still more difficult choices for gay poets. What is the right kind of honesty? And what is the right kind of tone? I think the poets in this book are looking for truthful answers, in a way which is serious, but not solemn. Peter Daniels has made a selection any reader can enjoy, and learn from" — Edward Lucie-Smith Sample poems Or, click here to pay in $ US dollars.

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