Not Love Alone: A Modern Gay Anthology

by Martin Humphires (Compiler)

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Genres: Poetry

128 pages, Paperback

First published September 1, 1986

Reviews

[Queer · Rating 2 out of 5]

This is an eccentric collection of gay poetry - mostly British - from the mid-1980's. Some of this poetry is brilliant, but most of it is between bad and terrible. The editor did not do a particularly good job selecting the best work and highlighting it. I'm keeping it as historical piece documenting gay poetry from the 80's.

[LolV · Rating 5 out of 5]

"If I cannot hug you through what I write
I best write nothing
It just can't/won't achieve anything

But if I can take you into my arms
Through what I write
(Or in the flesh,

It matters not which)
And if you can hug me back
Through what I write

Or in the flesh
Then we may yet achieve something"

-John Hoarder

Cheeky, honest, sexy, humbling, violent, tender and beautiful, this 'Modern Gay Anthology' is everything I have hope and more when It come to gay poetry, which is as Martin Humphries say in the begining of the book : quite difficult to summarize or even define.