Queer Poetry

Queer poetry has as long and rich a lineage as ‘canonical' poetry, and in this course you will explore historical and contemporary queer poets to tap into a historical understanding of queer literary lineage, to expand your own writing, and to broaden your belief in your own writing as queer poets today.

The course will begin with reading selections from prominent queer poets like Elizabeth Bishop, Richard Siken, Sappho and others, and you will write new work that emerge from these discussions.

This course is a blend of writing and reading, and is intended for poets seeking to broaden their knowledge as much as their poetic toolkit.
 

About the tutor: 

Mícheál McCann is a poet and editor from Derry.

His poems have appeared in The Poetry Review, Banshee, The Stinging Fly and anthologised in Queering the Green and Romance Options: Love Poetry for Today. He has published three pamphlets of poems, and his first full collection, Devotion, is published by The Gallery Press.

He is the editor of Poetry Ireland Review 143, the founding editor of catflap, and was a co-editor of Hold Open the Door: A Commemorative Anthology from the Ireland Chair of Poetry published by UCD Press.

He holds a PhD from the Seamus Heaney Centre at Queens where he is the 2024 Publishing Fellow.