Arts BOOK REVIEW: Love From the Pink Palace by Jill Nalder This book is a huge throb of love, from a woman who continues to give and share. Her love teaches us that radical unconditional love will get us through the darkest of times and give us an opportunity to build on the ashes of the glories of those who went before. By Eric Page • 4 min read
Arts BOOK REVIEW: I Am Not Raymond Wallace by Sam Kenyon A satisfying new addition to queer literature. By Eric Page • 3 min read
Arts BOOK REVIEW: Filthy Animals by Brandon Taylor Filthy Animals Brandon Taylor This collection of eleven LGBTQ+ stories, interwoven and interconnected by character, theme and narrative tension is superb. Taylor takes the familiar Queer tropes and upends them, shakes them out, twists them round, some get a spit and rub, others placed back in strang By Eric Page • 3 min read
Arts BOOK REVIEW: Destination Pride by Andrew Collins Destination Pride Andrew Collins This travel sized book, part of the ‘Destination’ series is a celebration of freedom and of the progress that continues to make it both safe and inspiring for Queer people to explore parts of every continent. LGBTQ+ travellers know the importance of feeling safe and By Eric Page • 2 min read
Arts Back to Books fundraising to sustain their radical and representative bookselling Back to Books is a Digbeth-based independent bookshop that first began in May 2019, when its founder Alexia was struggling to find an independent bookshop in her new home city of Birmingham. By Catherine Muxworthy • 2 min read
Arts Author Helen Trevorrow to sign copies of new book, New Brighton, at Sussex Beacon on August 20 Local HIV charity the Sussex Beacon has announced that Helen Trevorrow, author of New Brighton, will be signing her new book at the Sussex Beacon’s St James’s Street shop on Saturday, August 20, 12-3pm. By Graham Robson • 1 min read
Arts Queer poetry event with Simran Uppal, mandisa apena and Jinhao Xie The event, on Thursday, July 28, will be an evening of poetry readings hosted by Jacob Sam-La Rose and featuring Barbican Young Poets Simran Uppal, mandisa apena and Jinhao Xie, to celebrate the new poetry anthology ‘Articulations for Keeping the Light In’ By Graham Robson • 1 min read
Arts BOOK REVIEW: Great LGBTQ+ Speeches by Tea Uglow Eric Page is delighted by the insight, sass and glorious rhetoric (from) these speeches shine like beacons, they glow with the power of inspiration, they shake with rage, shudder with righteous anger and shout across time space for us to echo them in our daily testimony, struggle and who we fight to By Eric Page • 3 min read
Arts Not your typical literary festival! Brighton Book Festival to launch on Friday, June 24 Run by local booksellers Afrori Books and the Feminist Bookshop, this grassroots festival is not your typical literary festival – it targets a younger, socially aware audience and has an inclusive ethos, accessible events and is community minded. By Graham Robson • 1 min read
Arts LGBTQ+ voices amplified in a luminous poetry anthology by Barbican and flipped eye Articulations for Keeping the Light In features the freshest voices in the contemporary poetry panorama, including the most exciting up-and-coming LGBTQ+ poets By Graham Robson • 2 min read
Arts BOOK REVIEW: ‘The Satyrs Kiss: Queer Men, Sex Magic & Modern Witchcraft’ by Storm Faerywolf This practical guide empowers everyone who identifies as male to take his rightful place at the centre of his own universe, honouring the unique qualities that set him apart from the mainstream. Emphasizing the importance of sexuality in Witchcraft, this book features a variety of methods for celebr By Eric Page • 3 min read
Arts BOOK REVIEW: The Whale Tattoo by Jon Ransom The book is alive in the hands, no easy read, it wriggles and tries to leap away from you. I had to put it down more than once as a sentence took a turn into the brutal crepuscular silence and the rough marsh came for me. I laid down and wept. By Eric Page • 4 min read
