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Poetry Roundups 10, 11

Late, as usual, here’s my favourite poetry collections read during the following dates:

ROUNDUP 10: read between June and December 2023 –

Highly Recomended:
Bright Fear by Mary Jean Chan
Shadow in the Closet by Yakov Azriel
Self-Portrait with the Happiness by David Tait
Gravity and Center: Selected Sonnets 1994 – 2022 by Henri Cole
Nothing to Declare by Henri Cole
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	Queering the Green: Post-2000 Queer Irish Poetry by Paul Maddern (Editor), Kevin Breathnach (Contributor), Colette Bryce (Contributor) 3.83 avg rating — 41 ratings	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Lovejets: Queer Male Poets on 200 Years of Walt Whitman by Raymond Luczak (Goodreads Author) (Editor), Shane Allison (contributor), Jeffrey Angles (Goodreads Author) (translator) it was amazing 5.00 avg rating — 20 ratings — published 2019	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Circumference 4.76 avg rating — 17 ratings — 2 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Not Just Another Pretty Face by Louis Flint Ceci (Goodreads Author) (Editor), Lewis DeSimone (Goodreads Author) (Contributor), Richard Wilde Lopez (Contributor) 4.47 avg rating — 17 ratings — published 2016 — 4 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
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