The Ballad of Captain Rigby
08 May 2012
Write Queer London 2012 saw poet Peter Daniels enter the Metropolitan Archives to uncover LGBT history amongst their stacks wherein he made the acqaintance of our tale's hero, the indefatigable Captain Rigby.
Captain Edward Rigby was tried for sodomy in 1698, after falling foul of
The Secret Lives of Shirts by Elizabeth (Buffy) Noble - Winning Poetry entry Write Queer London 2012
14 February 2012
The secret lives of shirts
I am flattened,
And again flattened.
I am forced.
I am heavy as a man,
hanging
I am heavy as a day.
I am made straight.
but
I have been silk, undone, wettened
I have been lovingly dangled
I have
The Pankratiasts by James Duncan- overall winning entry for Write Queer London 2012
14 February 2012
Squat down, pulling the back of my head onto his bare chest, Erasmus has pushed his left leg between mine. The inside of his thigh is touching the back of my balls. My sturdy left leg knots around his sturdier right.
He has
Write Queer London Festival has landed
02 December 2011
Discovering gay histories across London museums
The Museum of London’s Write Queer London festival, which begins in December, brings together writers, poets and LGBT history in London museums for a fourth year. Curator talks, gallery tours, poetry commissions, a writing competition and creative
Write Queer London 2012 is on its way
29 November 2011
We are really pleased that Write Queer London is back for a fourth year.
The recipe goes like this:
- Take five or six London museums, with interesting LGBT collections or stories
- Add a knowledgeable curator to explain and answer questions
- Bring in
Gay history: now in verse
14 November 2011
As part of this year's Write Queer London we've commissioned three poets to search the collections of three London museums, choose an object or a theme and write a poem. All three poets have just begun their commissions now, and we wait
Write Queer London 2012: How to enter
08 November 2011
RULES:
Entries in all categories must relate to an aspect of historical or modern Lesbian, Gay, Bi-sexual and Transgender London - or objects held in London museums. We will interpret this fairly broadly, but won't consider entries, however good, which are simply 'gay stories
WRITE QUEER LONDON 2011: A Moth in a Blizzard
23 March 2011
Write Queer London 2011: Overall Winner
I met Akira Arashi.
Normally one would begin by detailing when and where and how they met someone but all I recall is how he threw a door open and walked in, wrapped in a shroud of blinding light
Write Queer London 2011: Reverse Pepys
23 March 2011
It does not begin as a great fire,
but in the gentle kindling of
the King’s bakery. Much later on,
full blaze, it sends a measured,
secular radiancy. By and by,
300 houses go, and look remarkable
when seen from the tower. From Fish
WRITE QUEER LONDON 2011: LET THIS YEAR BE DIFFERENT
23 March 2011
Runner up
“No, the Oxford Street one … because I’d much rather … the Mountview Café, yes … but can we meet downstairs? … the Tottenham Court Road entrance? … it’s less busy ... Ten-fifteen? I should be able to,
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