Somewhere There Is A Sky For Us

by Joelle Taylor (editor)

Genres: Poetry
Pages: 170
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Synopsis:

This anthology gathers the many voices and textures of Language is a Queer Thing, a 3-year long poetic dialogue between queer voices from India and the UK, unfolding over three years of exchange, residencies and performance.

These poems are prayers, protests, lullabies, warnings, duets, sonatas and satires.

Somewhere There Is A Sky For Us is the product of a three-year project involving queer poets from India and the UK sharing their work, doing residencies and exchanges, etc. It’s an interesting spread of poems, and often plays with form (sometimes a bit difficult to read in print form, since they’ve turned it sideways on the page so you have to turn the book). It’s mostly in English, but other languages are mixed in here and there.

Overall it wasn’t quite my thing — I think I’m more of a traditionalist about poetry at times, and don’t love ones that play with shapes on the page or go very abstract. There’s a few prose-poems, which I can enjoy, but didn’t really stand out to me.

As ever, there are a few images and lines that stand out, and I’m glad I gave it a shot! Just not my personal cup of tea. Which is perhaps an unfair figure of speech, as I’ve never met a cup of tea I liked; rest assured that I didn’t read this expecting not to like it, as it’s a pretty cool sounding project.

Rating: 2/5 (“it was okay”)