I loved this collection. It has many funny, heartful, sad, bittersweet, sexy poems for readers of different interests. The introduction and approach to amassing the voices is beautifully expressed. I really enjoyed coming across familiar authors, including people I didn’t know wrote poems. Equally, I’ve taken lots of time to get to know the new poets I didn’t know. It’s a collection that feels full of love for queer people but without being sentimental or cliché about many, many different ways of existing and feeling.

I’m so delighted to have been granted an ARC of this simply beautiful anthology.

I dipped in and out over a week or so, and revelled in the lyricism of each incredibly talented poet. But it also teased out a variety of emotions and I’m reminded of the power of poetry to grab your heart and squeeze it with an efficiency unseen in the reading of novels.

It’s also refreshing to see a curation like this. It’s much needed and I applaud Mary Jean Chan and Andrew McMillan.

All I have to say is read these poems whenever you have a moment, whenever you need solace or joy. And thank the world for these poets.

This is a beautiful collection of queer poetry. Edited by Mary Jean Chan and Andrew McMillan who frankly both are wonderful poets. There aren't many anthalogies of queer poems so this one will do good.

I was delighted to have been invited to view this title. Thank you so much to the publisher for this honour!

This is an absolutely brilliant anthology of 'queer' poetry. One thing that made me love this before I'd even started exploring the poetry itself was McMillan's exploration of what makes a poem 'queer'. This included acknowledgement of the changing connotations of 'queerness' over time and its reclamation by the LGBTQIA+ community, as well as asking important questions such as, "Is a queer poem simply anything written by a poet who identifies themselves as queer? Is a queer poem one that is overtly queer in its subject matter? Is a queer poem one that queers the language, or the form, the very structure of what a poem is? By including a poem in this anthology, are we shifting the way it, or its author, could be viewed?"

I believe that airing these questions and exploring them, but also leaving the answers open ended, is a part of what immediately made this collection special to me as an LGBTQIA+ reader. It allowed me to fill in the blanks, dip in and out, find affinity where I wished to without it being imposed onto me. I loved the variety of poets included as well, both well known and those who were new names for me. There truly is something here for everyone.

Thanks again for the early access - would absolutely recommend this!

Pulling together 100 queer poems from across various times, identities and places sounds like a tall order, but this book does it beautifully, reminding me of some I already adore, and some entirely new ones.

It is also clear that a lot of love has gone into this collection, as they are very well chosen, and sit brilliantly next to each other.

I received an advanced copy of this book from NetGalley in exchange for an honest review.

A varied book of poems - not all necessarily dealing with queer relationships but all aspects of queer poet's lives. Highly recommended.

I was invited to review this work, which I truly appreciate, because I’m not sure I would have picked up the volume otherwise. I do not tend to read poetry, but this collection was as evocative as i would have expected. It is the kind of work that you could dip in and out of, each time leaving you more thoughtful than the next. I think the Queer Domesticities and Queer Childhood portions resonated with me the most - Strawberry Thief has to be one of my favourite poems from the whole collection.

Thank you to NetGalley and to Penguin Random House/ Vintage for offering me this ARC. Beautiful.

Thank you to the publisher and Netgalley for this eARC of "100 Queer Poems" a collection edited by Mary Jean Chan and Andrew McMillan.

I absolutely loved this collection and I fell in love with each and every poem written. As a queer woman, I feel heard and loved by this type of work and the fact that this exists is absolutely amazing. There's always those poems you don't like as much as the others but you slowly fall in love with every word the poet says.

I was really looking forward to this one but unfortunately, I did not enjoy the style of poetry featured. I would still recommend this book to people wanting to diversify their reading and who enjoy a wide range of poetry. It just wasn’t to my taste, for the most part.

Thank you to NetGalley, Mary Jean Chan, Andrew McMillan and the publisher for giving me the chance to read this book in exchange for an honest review.

I absolutely adored this anthology. It consists of 100 beautiful and queer poems, which I read in one sitting. I loved the way they were sorted into sections, and I will definitely be rereading these. Could not recommend it enough!

This wasn't as wonderful as I was hoping or expecting. Some of the poems were beautiful and heart-wrenching and others just felt like nothing, unfortunately. Overall it was pretty solid but not as emotional as I was anticipating and that's a big thing for poetry with me.

An absolute pleasure to read such an inspiring and beautiful queer anthology. I loved that there was such a variety of poetry and it wasn't all about relationships.

100 Queer Poems is an anthology of, as the title suggests, 100 poems from across the twentieth and twenty-first century that evoke queerness in some way, with the introductions by each editor exploring some of the definitions and ideas behind this concept. Split into seven sections, the poems follow a range of topics and styles, with some in translation, so there's likely to be something for most people to enjoy, regardless of what sort of poetry you prefer.

For me, I found myself often most drawn to poems by poets I've already read (Mary Jean Chan, Matthew Haigh, Peter Scalpello, Richard Scott, Danez Smith), which possibly suggests that I'm already good at finding the poetry I like, and it was nice to read various poets together. I found myself drawn into the collection and accidentally stayed up too late reading it all in one go, almost in suspense for what poem would come next. I would like to have a physical copy (I read the book in PDF form) to use as a proper anthology, to flick through and dog ear and find that specific poem you want to read again at that moment.

Probably my favourite poem in the collection is one I think I've read before, Harry Josephine Giles' 'May a transsexual hear a bird?', which I don't think will ever stop being such a powerful poem and one that strikes a real message about poetry and what can be in it, offering with that an interesting commentary on what should or could be included in any collection of queer poetry. Surprisingly, I also found myself really drawn to the ability to reread Auden's 'Funeral Blues', a poem I've read a lot but not recently, in the context of poems from a range of decades, but especially alongside a lot of modern poetry. Some other poems that stood out to me were 'Go Away and Then Come Back by Martha Sprackland, 'I See That Lilith Hath Been with Thee Again' by Shivanee Ramlochan, and 'Ganymede' by Jericho Brown.

As the introductions touch upon, it is refreshing to see a major publisher bringing out such an anthology, which feels like the sort of book that all queer poets and poetry fans need a copy of, both as something to return to and as a representation of a current moment (which the acknowledgements suggest, referring to the idea of there being another one of these in ten years). As with any anthology, people are going to prefer different poems or wonder why certain things weren't included, but it is a great chance to survey some of the queer poetry out there from the past 100 years or so. It's a jumping off point rather than a closed book, as any good anthology should be, and I think it just being readily available and visible is still important.

A beautiful collection of poetry from queer authors. There were some that I enjoyed a lot, while others felt meh. Still, the good outweighed the ones that I didn't like. Many managed to elicit emotions — I smiled, I laughed, I felt sad. The introductions were also enjoyable to read, often they are ignored, but I thought they were lovely addtions, especially the poems included. the fact that translated works were included in the mix was good too. I would definitely recommend this to anyone who enjoys poetry.

it’s safe to say i loved this poetry collection. i devoured it in a matter of hours (no matter how many poetry loyalists say not to do that, i simply could not stop myself). it is so beautifully collated and expressed, and is a real testament to random house/vintage, andrew mcmillan, mary jean chan, and the poets. it made me laugh, it made me cry, but most of all, it left me entirely speechless.

‘100 queer poems’ is split into seven sections, which i admit i was dubious of first (for how can one define poetry?) but they make perfect sense, and have a real balance to them. one thing in particular i loved was the inclusion of translated works, which are so often overlooked in poetry collections, but hold such beauty. this was a fantastic choice.

upon my first read, i chose to follow the collection in order (as i believe there’s always a method to the madness), although there is recognition that you can choose to read however you please. i want to read this collection in every order possible. personally, my favourite section was ‘queer relationships’, and my favourite poems (always a tough decision!) were ‘what gretel knows’, ‘valentine’, ‘the whistler’, ‘untitled/villanelle’, ‘funeral blues’, ‘wrong star’, ‘afterwards’, ‘rooms’, ‘a litany for survival’, ’2004’, and ‘reasons for staying’, but all of them certainly hold their own power.

also - please do not skip the introductions! there is a real sense of comfort provided from them, especially as you move through the collection. not all of the poems are explicitly queer, but you can rest easy knowing that they are, and they were chosen for that reason.

the only slight criticism i have is i would love the inclusion of the pronouns of the poets, as i would hate to misgender them.

thank you to random house uk/vintage and netgalley for providing me with a copy!