eff-able anthology

@eff-able.bsky.social

A spicy anthology of queer crip poetry 🌶️ ✨BOOK OUT NOW!✨ https://effable.uk Editors: JP Seabright & George Parker Publisher: fourteen poems Funder: Arts Council England

So very proud and excited to be bringing eff-able to the National Poetry Library next Wednesday! Hosted by your eff-able Book Daddies, and featuring our contributing poets: Catherine Balaq, Cat Chong, Rick Dove, Arden Fitzroy, Cleo Henry, Gayathiri Kamalakanthan, John McCullough and Scarlett Ward.

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We did it! eff-able well and truly launched in a celebration of queer crip spiciness last night. You can check out photos of the event, taken by our fabulous photographer James Klug, by scanning the QR code below.

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This is such a fantastic poem! And honour and a joy to have Karl’s work between the pages of eff-able. 💜

Karl Knights@inadarkwood.bsky.social · last yr.

New poem alert! I'm in @eff-able.bsky.social, thanks to George and JP for inviting me along. Here are the first two lines of a double sonnet, a very Suffolk take on hookups (after all, what's hotter than a three hour bus ride to cover a spitting distance?) Grateful to be part of this urgent project

A white hand holding a book in front of a bookshelf. The book is Eff-able: a spicy anthology of queer crip poetry. The cover shows someone bearing their neck, holding their head high, in infra red light.

“We want to bring poetry, and specifically this community exploring this aspect of their life experience, into the queer clubs where we are so often ignored or excluded” @eff-able.bsky.social was born out of this desire for visibility and representation, writes @jpseabright.bsky.social

We Are Not A Sideshow: celebrating queer crip poetry

“We want to bring poetry, and specifically this community exploring this aspect of their life experience, into the queer clubs where we are so often ignored or excluded”

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We’ve been a bit quiet on social media recently because we’ve been BUSY! Finalising our contributors and their super sexy queer crip poems for the eff-able anthology and starting to plan our roadshow!

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Text reads: Sending all our supporters contributors and future readers some sweet queer crip love this Valentine’s Day 
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fourteen poems

CHECK YOUR INBOXES! We’ve finalised our anthology poems today with our wonderful publisher fourteen poems. An incredible selection of work, we feel so lucky to have had the chance to read. We can’t wait to bring you this anthology of spicy queer crip poetry later this year!

✨submissions are now closed✨ Thank you all for your interest and support of the eff-able project! 💜 We can’t wait to read all your gorgeous sexy queer crip poems and shortlist with our publisher fourteen poems. We’ll get back to you in the new year. Until then, stay safe and stay sexy! 😍

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