Guest Editor Jackie Hagan Poet & Dramatist
Featuring poetry from Chloe Poems, Rosie Lugosi, Aoife Mannix, Todd Swift, Jack Hirschman, Michelle Green, George Wallace, Gordon Zola.
Described by the Times as “so filthy it verges on the educational”, by the Independent as a “prize fighter” and by the Gay Times as “a massive star of enormous talent”, Chloe Poems is one of the most prodigiously gifted and accessible poets alive today.
Drag queens parody a particular, exaggerated vision of femininity, one which very few women aspire to – are you limiting a vision of femininity?
No and yes. Every day as a child I was told I was like a girl, not in a nice way. Chloe is the girl I was always told I would be, and I wanted to give that girl a big powerful voice. I don’t think people expect that fusion of girl/boy, because when most drag queens go on stage they have no idea – they rip the shit out of women and make themselves look ridiculous. >> more