Roger Taber
From the mother of a gay son: I am the mother of a gay son and am writing to tell you about a collection of poems I was given for Christmas – The Third Eye: poems by R. N. Taber. Like his other volumes – Love And Human Remains & First Person Plural – it has a gay section; there are also gay poems in other sections where appropriate. As far as I know, Roger Taber is the only contemporary poet who combines gay and other poems in his work. I have also seeen some of his gay poems in (general) Forward Press anthologies. My family enjoy Roger Taber’s poetry very much but his gay poetry touches us in particular as it was not easy coming to terms with my son being gay. I have been in touch with Roger by e-mail. My son and the rest of our family especially applaud the fact that he expresses the view that gay poetry should no more be seen as a genre-within-a-genre separate from mainstream poetry/literature than gay men and women should be seen as separate from mainstream society. Details of his poetry collections are on amazon.co.uk as well as some reviews. Examples of his poetry can be found by clicking on the link below:
aspectsofagaymanslifeinverse.blogspot.com
Queer@Kings
An academic organisation within Kings College that runs a programme of speakers and conferences to raise issues of queer culture and academia.
www.kcl.ac.uk/schools/humanities/hrc/queer
Out on Air
BBC radio4’s Archive Hour celebrates the rise and fall of gay radio; how homosexuality on the airwaves went from taboo to mainstream in the space of a decade.
www.bbc.co.uk/radio4/archivehour/pip/jzur7
Get Bent!
Manchester’s Alternative Community Pride Summer Festival! A Celebration of Queer Diversity from 24th August – 2nd September 2007!
http://www.get-bent-manchester.com