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01/03/2025

✨ Join Us for the First Fourteen Umami Poems Seminar! ✨

Join us for a series of open seminars where we will explore poetry, discover new perspectives, and connect with diverse voices in q***r literature, as part of our fourteen umami poems project.

Mícheál McCann, in his debut collection, Devotion (2024), brings the tradition of Irish lament poetry into contemporary Belfast. Reimagining the 18th-century Lament for Art O’Leary, McCann tells the story of a man grieving the murder of his male lover. His poetry revolves around themes of loss, belonging, childhood memories, and q***r experiences, while also drawing inspiration from the sea, food, and the quiet moments of everyday life.

In this seminar, McCann will share the inspirations behind his poetry, his writing practice, and the creative journey of Devotion.

First seminar:
📅 Tuesday, March 4
🕖 19:00 - 20:00 (GMT+3)
🎤 Speaker: Mícheál McCann
🌍 ONLINE / Free and open to all

Who is Mícheál McCann?

Mícheál McCann is a poet and editor from Derry, Ireland. His first collection, Devotion, was published in 2024 by The Gallery Press and was Highly Commended in the Forward Poetry Prizes 2024. Previously he published the pamphlets Safe Home (Green Bottle Press, 2020) and Keeper (Fourteen Publishing, 2022); he was the recipient of the inaugural Ireland Chair of Poetry Student Prize in 2019, and was chosen as one of the writers for the National Centre for Writing’s International Literature Showcase 2020-2021. His poems have appeared in in The Poetry Review, Poetry Ireland Review, The Manchester Review, Banshee Lit, RTÉ, BBC, and have been anthologised in Q***ring the Green (Lifeboat Press, 2021) and Romance Options: Love Poetry for Today (Dedalus Press, 2023). He works as a teacher and lives in Belfast with his partner and two profound cats.

📢 The seminar will be in webinar format.

💬 It will be held in English with simultaneous Turkish translation.

Register now to secure your spot! Link is in bio!

24/02/2025

It’s release week for Zara Meadows’ () debut pamphlet “The End of Art” so we’re sharing this incredible poem ‘South’.

Summing up what’s so wonderful about Zara’s work it looks at their hometown of Belfast with fresh eyes.

Swipe to read and you can grab a copy of the book at fourteenpoems.com now!

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17/02/2025

Come celebrate the release of Zara Meadows’ debut pamphlet “The End of Art” at the Seamus Heaney Centre in Belfast () next week.

Zara will be reading poems from the book, along with support from Cal O’Reilly, Dawn Watson, and Mícheál McCann. These poems are so exciting and we can’t wait to celebrate them in Zara’s hometown.

Grab a ticket via the link in our bio! And you can pre-order copies of “The End of Art” via fourteenpoems.com!

05/02/2025

“I build some version of you”

It’s been one year since we published Dale Booton’s (.booton) “On This Stretch of Q***rland” so to celebrate, here’s one of the poems from the book.

Gay panic, online flirting, and the calm that comes with the ping of a reply: this poems sums up the complexities of digital dating.

Head to fourteenpoems.com to grab a copy of “On This Stretch of Q***rland” now!

03/02/2025

Come celebrate Hemisferio Cuir with us!

We’re joining forces with to launch our anthology of Young Q***r Latin American Poetry on February 20th.

There’ll be discussions with poet and translator Leo Boix (), as well as featured poet Tibiezas Dager and publisher Ben Townley-Canning. Plus readings from the book.

Tickets available via the link in bio. And you can pre-order Hemisferio Cuir at fourteenpoems.com.

See you there!

31/01/2025

Thanks to the Poetry Book Society () for choosing Troy Cabida’s () “Symmetric of Bone: poems after Elsa Peretti” as their Spring 2025 Pamphlet Choice!

And a special thank you to Yousif Qasmiyeh and Alycia Pirmohamed () for selecting the book.

Swipe for a little of the write up from PBS and remember you can grab a copy of “Symmetric of Bone” from the PBS website or fourteenpoems.com.

Congratulations Troy!

28/01/2025

We’re so thrilled to be publishing the debut pamphlet from rising poetry star Zara Meadows at the end of February.

In “The End of Art” Zara Meadows writes about love, q***r identities, and family connections alongside a redrawing of contemporary Belfast.

These poems couldn’t be written from anywhere other than Belfast - Zara’s hometown and base - offering a modern take on the city without forgetting its histories.

In doing so, Meadows also simultaneously looks at forging their own identity alongside the changing city; these poems might be haunted by ghosts that the poet lives alongside, but they’re also full of humour and tenderness.

You can preorder “The End of Art” at fourteenpoems.com now!

24/01/2025

We’re so thrilled with the response to our forthcoming anthology “Hemisferio Cuir: an anthology of young q***r Latin American poetry”!

There’s lots of exciting news to come with launches and readings but, before then, you can swipe the images above to see all the poets selected and translated by Leo Boix () in the book!

There’s 29 poets in total from across the region. We can’t wait for you to read these poems. You can pre order the book via the link in our bio.

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22/01/2025

Thrilled that Troy Cabida () and Ellora Sutton () will be reading from their pamphlets at the Verve Poetry Festival next month.

They’ll be taking part in Pamphlet Hour alongside Betty Doyle and Laurie Bolger, with all four poets talking about the importance of the pamphlet in poetry.

Troy will be reading from “Symmetric of Bone” published by us at fourteen poems last year. Ellora will be reading from “Artisanal Slush” published by .publisherofpoetry (but maybe she’ll squeeze in a poem from her pamphlet “Antonyms for Burial”, published in 2023 by us 😉).

The Verve Poetry Festival runs from 13th-16th February in Birmingham and the Pamphlet Hour takes place on the 14th. Take a date!

You can get in person tickets for the event via .poetry.festival and if you can’t attend in person, you can also book a streaming ticket too. We’ve put the link in our bio.

10/01/2025

Kicking off our first Instagram Live of the year next week with Malik Thompson () reading their poem ‘Someday I Won’t F**k Married Men’ from Issue 15.

A poem that is more tender than the title suggests, ‘Someday…’ looks at the complexities of relationships and the desire for tenderness.

Come join us on the 15th January at 6pm EST/11pm GMT and hear Malik read the poem, a second of their poems, and a third favourite.

And if you’re new to Malik, they’re a a Black q***r poet from Washington, DC with poems published in The Cincinnati Review and Denver Quarterly among other places. They’re also a recipient of fellowships/residencies from Cave Canem and Lambda Literary among others.

See you on the 15th!

07/01/2025

We’re kicking off 2025 with an exciting announcement.

This year, fourteen poems will be collaborating with the Turkish q***r publishing house Umami Kitap () on FOURTEEN UMAMI POEMS.

In a unique collobration, with funding from the British Council, FOURTEEN UMAMI POEMS will see 5 fourteen poems poets lead poetry seminars for a group of emerging q***r poets in Turkey, offering advice and tips on writing and getting published.

These emerging poets will then workshop their poems, creating a new book of q***r poetry published in Turkish by Umami Kitap later this year.

We’re so excited to work with Umami Kitap on this project and can’t wait to see the fruits of this exciting partnership.

More details to follow!

06/01/2025

We’re back and opening the new year like the first page of a new book. So what better way to replicate that than with the cover letter of our latest issue.

Issue 15 is packed full of q***r poems, from established and emerging poets. I’m thrilled that you’ve been enjoying it over the break and love hearing which poems you connected with most.

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20/12/2024

Surprise! We’re ending the year with an announcement of a new book: Hemisferio Cuir: an anthology of Latin American Q***r Poetry. Edited and translated by the brilliant Leo Boix and with poems in Spanish and English from across Latin America, we hope you love this book! It’ll be published in late Spring 2024, but you can pre-order via our website. Cover design by the incredible Studio Stromberg.

¡Sorpresa! Terminamos el año con el anuncio de un nuevo libro: Hemisferio Cuir: Una antología de poesía cuír latinoamericana. Editada y traducida por el fantástico Leo Boix, el libro incluye poemas en español e inglés de toda América Latina, ¡Ojalá te guste! Se publicará a finales de la primavera de 2024, pero puedes encargarlo por adelantado a través de nuestra página web. La portada fue diseñada por el genial Studio Stromberg.

19/12/2024

It’s the end of the year and I always like to roundup my favourite q***r poetry books from other publishers. Here’s fourteen (other) poems that I keep returning to again and again. And don’t come for me if they came out earlier than 2024! This was the year I fell in love with these poems.

Follow these poets online, buy their books, support their (mostly) indie publishers.

Poems from most of these books also featured in our weekly newsletter. If you’d like a poem in your inbox every Friday (plus discounts and other good things) sign up at fourteenpoems.com/newsletter.

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Devotion by Mícheál McCann

Exposure by Eric Yip (.ycw)

Treasure by Jemima Foxtrot

Rapture’s Road by Seán Hewitt

eat the glitter by Kat Dixon

High Jump as Icarus Story by Gustav Parker Hibbett

In Wolf’s Skin by Titilayo Farukuoye

Bluff by Danez Smith

Not your Orlando by Jaime Lock (), George Parker (), JP Seabright ()

One for Sorrow, Two for Joy by Caleb Nichols ()

I cannot by good until you say it by Sanah Ahsan ()

Inheritance by Jasmine ()

Are You There by Samathan Fain

Real Boys by Thomas Stewart ()

12/12/2024

Art inspired by art inspiring art!

We’re thrilled that Evan Williams’ Issue 2 poem ‘The New Achilles’ – itself inspired by a poem from Chen Chen – has inspired a new choral piece from Hannah Cai Sobel ().

And we’re jealous that we’re not in NYC to see it performed this Saturday (14th December) as part of the Premieres show.

You can read the original poem above – and then swipe to find out more about Hannah Cai Sobel and C4 Ensemble.

Grab a ticket from the C4 profile if you’re in NYC and enjoy an evening of new choral music!

Issue 2 is still available from our website. And Evan’s pamphlet “Claustrophobia Surprise” – featuring a former newsletter Poem of the Week - is available from Had Chaps.

Infographics lovingly borrowed from the C4 profile.

09/12/2024

Issue 15 is officially here! And to celebrate its release, here’s a sneak peek at one of the fourteen poems within.

Written by Hazelle Lerum () ‘on tasting her girlfriend’s scars’ is a subversively erotic look at intimacy, vulnerability, and love.

Read it above and grab a copy of fourteen poems via the link in our bio!

And follow Hazelle to find out more about her upcoming poems!

05/12/2024

We’ve got one more Instagram Live for Issue 14 and it’s happening with the brilliant on Monday at 6pm.

Join us here and hear Jemima read ‘treasure’ from Issue 14 and chat about her work. Plus we’ll hear a second of her poems and a third by a favourite writer.

And if you want to get ahead of the game you can buy Issue 14 from our website and/or a copy of Jemima’s book - also called “Treasure” - via .

See you Monday!

26/11/2024

“You/always know how to make me/leave, ice/ambushed by the glass.”

It’s been a year since we published Luís Costa’s () debut pamphlet “Two Dying Lovers Holding a Cat”! Happy anniversary Luís!

That’s a year of steamy poems, heartbreak poems, and poems that play with language and love.

Here’s ‘Vespertine’ from the book for you to enjoy. You can grab a copy of the full book at fourteenpoems.com!

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We’re so excited to get poems from our new book Hemisferio Cuir: an anthology of young queer Latin American poetry selected by Leo Boix (@boixleo) out into the world. Pre orders are winging their way to you right now! As a teaser, here’s a poem from Flor Bárcenas Feria (@lafloresida), a Colombian poet featured in the book. The English translation from Leo is below, along with Flor’s bio! You can grab a copy of Hemisferio Cuir at fourteenpoems.com now. The Water of Dreams Fishing from the water of sleep an open door that leads you to the patio of your childhood to tell your father not to sacrifice animals in front of you not to make pacts with your sorrow to honour his surname or use the patio for feasts with shots in the air while your fragility is revealed alone before your throat only heard by the river To open the door and seven times to stop your father's hand and seven times to forgive him and seven times to write the message in his blood: childhood pulls like the white creature drowned in the middle of the river. FLOR BÁRCENAS FERIA (b Montería, Colombia, 1997) is an Afro-Caribbean poet and the author of the poetry collection Bramidos de agua dulce (2020). She won the young poetry Jorge García Usta prize in PoeMaRío Barranquilla. Her poetry has been included in the anthology Como la flor: contemporary Colombian cuir poetry edited by Planeta. Her poems circulate in national and international magazines.

So excited that Zara Meadows’ (@zmameadows) brilliant debut pamphlet “The End of Art” is out now. Watch Zara seeing their book for the first time 🥰. You can grab a copy via fourteenpoems.com or the link in bio. See you at the launch in Belfast on Friday!

“Ireland is a place & all at once it isn’t.” Zara Meadows (@zmameadows) reads another poem from their debut pamphlet “The End of Art” about love, Belfast, and families. “The End of Art” is available now from fourteenpoems.com!

Zara Meadows reads their poem ‘Bergamot’ from the debut pamphlet “The End of Art”, released by @14poems at the end of February. Pre-order at fourteenpoems.com now!

“I am not the only one brushing my teeth. Two streets away from me, somebody is dying young.” Abu Leila (@abu__leila) reads ‘Shine teeth” from Issue 15. Abu is a Barbican Young Poet, a winner of the Bridport Prize, and a winner of the London Writers Awards. They are currently working on their first novel. Issue 15 is available via fourteenpoems.com!

Ryan Ormonde (@ryanopoet) reads his poem ‘Movement (against Section 28)’ and looks back at activism and its impact during the Section 28 period. You can read ‘Movement…’ along with 13 other queer poems in Issue 15 of fourteen poems. Available from our website or your local bookstore!

💥 Malik Thompson 💥

Jennifer Wong (@jenniferwswong) reads her poem ‘rain’, taken from Issue 15, and talks about finding inspiration in still life moments. ‘rain’ is taken from Issue 15, which is available now! The poem will also feature in Jennifer’s new collection, “Light Year” which is released by @ninearchespress in late 2025. You can grab a copy of Issue 15 via fourteenpoems.com or your local indie bookstore. 🌧️

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