Queer : A Collection of LGBTQ Writing from Ancient Times to Yesterday ed. By Frank Wynne #Translatedpoetry with each of its pages

with each of its pages bringing a surprise

and his colleagues Geoffrey Faber and Frank Morley

Taking its bearings from the Tyne

A book to treasure alongside the original blue edition

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Queer : A Collection of LGBTQ Writing from Ancient Times to Yesterday ed. By Frank Wynne #Translatedpoetry with each of its pagesDrawing together writing from Catullus to Sappho, from Arthur Rimbaud to Anne Lister and Armistead Maupin, translator Frank Wynne has collected eighty of the finest works representing queer love by LGBTQ authors. These pieces straddle the spectrum of queer experience, from Verlaine's sonnet in praise of his lover's anus and Emily Dickinson's exhortation of a woman's beauty, to Alison Bechdel's graphic novel of her coming out, Juno Dawson's reflections