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A spicy anthology of queer crip poetry 🌶️
✨BOOK OUT NOW!✨
https://effable.uk

Editors: JP Seabright & George Parker
Publisher: fourteen poems
Funder: Arts Council England
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So very proud and excited to be bringing eff-able to the National Poetry Library next Wednesday!

Hosted by your eff-able Book Daddies, and featuring our contributing poets: Catherine Balaq, Cat Chong, Rick Dove, Arden Fitzroy, Cleo Henry, Gayathiri Kamalakanthan, John McCullough and Scarlett Ward.
July 4, 2025 at 6:21 PM
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We did it! eff-able well and truly launched in a celebration of queer crip spiciness last night. You can check out photos of the event, taken by our fabulous photographer James Klug, by scanning the QR code below.
June 13, 2025 at 9:02 PM
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NEXT THURSDAY! Our book baby is born - at Walthamstow Trades Hall, with a spectacular celebration of cabaret-cum-poetry and performances from Lese Majeste favourites and our gorgeous contributors.

Get your tickets, they’re selling fast! 🔥
www.outsavvy.com/event/26705/lese-majeste-xxiii-eff-able
June 5, 2025 at 8:56 PM
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Fabulous fierce words of endorsement for eff-able from actor Em Prendergast.

eff-able is OUT NOW! Get your copy here: www.fourteenpoems.com/shop/eff-able-a-spicy-anthology-of-queer-crip-poetry
June 4, 2025 at 6:14 PM
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Chatting all things eff-able THIS WEDS on Insta Live. Tune in and ask us stuff! 7pm BST
June 2, 2025 at 5:34 PM
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Two weeks today! We launch eff-able, our sexy a.f. anthology of spicy queer crip poetry.

Tickets are going fast so grab ‘em while they’re hot! 🔥
www.outsavvy.com/event/26705/lese-majeste-xxiii-eff-able
May 29, 2025 at 6:11 PM
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Fabulous endorsement from @lucywebster.bsky.social for eff-able anthology. 💜
Get your copy now!
www.fourteenpoems.com/shop/eff-able-a-spicy-anthology-of-queer-crip-poetry
May 27, 2025 at 9:00 PM
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Lads! If you want to come to our amazing spicy queer crip Special Edition at the National Poetry Library you better be quick, there’s ONLY TWO TICKETS LEFT!
www.southbankcentre.co.uk/whats-on/special-edition-spicy-queer-crip-takeover/
May 23, 2025 at 3:43 PM
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Yeah baby yeah!

Blurbs are in - check this out from the multitalented Em Prendergast.

Preorder here! www.fourteenpoems.com/shop/eff-able-a-spicy-anthology-of-queer-crip-poetry
May 20, 2025 at 9:09 PM
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Drop everything right now - we have a cover! And she’s an effing beauty! 🥵🔥💜

Presales now open for eff-able : a spicy anthology of queer crip poetry, published by @fourteenpoems.bsky.social edited by @jpseabright.bsky.social & @agparker.bsky.social
Purple book cover with image of naked person drenched in pink neon light arching back with their hand on their neck. Title text: eff-able a spicy anthology of queer crip poetry edited by JP Seabright & George Violet Parker
May 14, 2025 at 5:49 AM
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Your effable editors had a fabulous time at the Enrich Festival yesterday previewing our effable poems with Featured Poet @rickdove.bsky.social
Hot stuff! 🔥🥵😈💜
Sign reading Effable Poetry 18+ Poems will contain references to sex, ableism, queerness, disability and will include some swear words
April 27, 2025 at 8:19 AM
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We’ve been a bit quiet on social media recently because we’ve been BUSY! Finalising our contributors and their super sexy queer crip poems for the eff-able anthology and starting to plan our roadshow!
purple background with two pink semicircles facing each other overlayed with a black box containing text Text reads: Sending all our supporters contributors and future readers some sweet queer crip love this Valentine’s Day eff-able anthology cumming soon Arts Council England fourteen poems
February 14, 2025 at 7:40 PM
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✨submissions are now closed✨

Thank you all for your interest and support of the eff-able project! 💜

We can’t wait to read all your gorgeous sexy queer crip poems and shortlist with our publisher fourteen poems.

We’ll get back to you in the new year. Until then, stay safe and stay sexy! 😍
December 11, 2024 at 9:48 AM
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Our free poetry workshops are now available to watch back on our website and YouTube channel effable.uk/blog/

Huge thanks to @sallrock.bsky.social & Gayathiri for delivering such warm nurturing creative spaces for our queer crip bodies.
All three of our wonderful poetry workshops : writing and editing effable poems led by @sallrockpoet Sallyanne Rock and Dear Bodies led by @unembarrassable Gayathiri Kamalakanthan are available to watch back on our website http://effable.uk/blog and on our YouTube channel @eff-able
December 8, 2024 at 6:51 PM
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Find us on Insta also for more posts.
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December 3, 2024 at 3:32 PM
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"I elongate the vowels in your name to hold you in my mouth a moment longer" speaking out - lisa luxx
December 3, 2024 at 3:32 PM
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"one never knows what urges await our surrender and what desires our permission" Towards Gods - Golnoosh Nour
December 3, 2024 at 3:32 PM
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"My fingers smell of lime & his sex. My mouth smells of his mouth. My hair smells of the moment the lawnmower growled by our curtained bedroom window, just as we started touching. A small book of questions: chapter | - Chen Chen
December 3, 2024 at 3:32 PM
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"Touching you I catch midnight as moon fires set in my throat I love you flesh into blossom I made you and take you made into me." Recreation - Audre Lorde
December 3, 2024 at 3:32 PM
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"and knowing that this is love the prone flesh what we expel from the body and what we let inside" urination - Andrew McMillan
December 3, 2024 at 3:32 PM
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"I will begin with the body, In the year of our Lord, Porous and wet, love-wracked And willing..." Romans 12:1 - Jericho Brown
December 3, 2024 at 3:32 PM
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"Sometimes, when we come together, you scream like you are being born. I sing like I am dying." Duet - Kae Tempest
December 3, 2024 at 3:32 PM
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"...angels don't fall from Heaven / they leave at closing time / unscrew their fucks in the backs of black cabs / abandon their bodies / beneath a girl beneath a duvet beneath the wet dilated night. on fire." Angel - Joelle Taylor
December 3, 2024 at 3:32 PM
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"Although I'd cream my jeans touching your breast, sweetheart, it isn't lust; it's all the rest of what I want with you that scares me shitless." Didn't Sappho say her guts clutched up like this? - Marilyn Hacker
December 3, 2024 at 3:32 PM
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Free workshop alert!

Led by the wonderful Gayathiri Kamalakanthan 💚

Sat 7th Dec 1.30-3pm - online
sign up via @outsavvy
www.outsavvy.com/event/23831/dear-bodies-an-eff-able-workshop-with-gayathiri-kamalakanthan
Image of a brown-skinned person wearing tortoiseshell glasses and a green top looking directly at the camera Text reads: Dear Bodies an effable workshop on loving and living in our queer crip bodies facilitated by Gayathiri Kamalakanthan Free 1.30-3pm on Zoom 7th December
November 27, 2024 at 9:02 PM