100 Queer Poems – McMillan Andrew (2024)

Mary Jean Chan and Andrew McMillan’s luminous anthology celebrates thrilling contemporary voices and visionary poets of the past. It includes poems by Elizabeth Bishop, Langston Hughes, Ocean Vuong, Carol Ann Duffy, Kae Tempest and many more, bringing together the flowering of queer poetry over recent decades with poets who came before and broke new ground. Questioning and redefining what we mean by a queer poem, the anthology ranges from childhood and adolescence to forging new homes and relationships with chosen families, from urban life to the natural world, and from explorations of the past to the ways we find and create our future selves. Alongside classics by Elizabeth Bishop, Langston Hughes, Wilfred Owen, Charlotte Mew and June Jordan are contemporary figures such as Mark Doty, Jericho Brown, Carol Ann Duffy, Kei Miller, Kae Tempest, Natalie Diaz and Ocean Vuong, as well as newer voices including Chen Chen, Richard Scott, Harry Josephine Giles, Verity Spott and Jay Bernard. The collection is curated by the widely acclaimed poets Mary Jean Chan and Andrew McMillan.