is a Stage 4 Undergraduate Student reading English and American Literature and Creative Writing with a Year in Journalism at The University of Kent in Canterbury (UKC).
With a disability he is oftentimes able to ‘hide’, Guy finds himself at the intersection of identities that once afforded him great shame. Having matured to accept these truths of his existence; his poetry speaks to the one-time closeted and internally able-phobic self he knew, by now passionately protecting and advancing the civil rights of queer and disabled communities. He is committed to uplifting those less fortunate, able and confident through his poetic praxis.
He was an Editor of With Love From Queer-Kuir-Kouír Cyprus – A MegaZine of Literary and Artistic Responses to Postcolonialism & Partition for LGBTQ+ History Month 2021‘ for Write/Right To The World. This limited publication has ended but you can still support the charities that were fundraised for through this endeavour – Accept Cyprus and Queer Cyprus Association – by watching the recorded launch, downloading the free PDF & donating.
He has recently featured as one of four Visual Poets in Queer Writing For A Brave New World, a Chapbook published by Out On The Page in collaboration with The Modernist Society.
Now he is a Press, Public Relations and Social Media Officer for National Student Pride and regularly performs at Exposure open mic nights, held by Alice Gretton. He is soon to relaunch The Queer Tea Podcast with Foyez Jitu.
Click to read more about Guy’s first self-published book The Quueird Manses
Feel free to contact me via my social channels or by email – links below.
Check out my latest posts here! – a mix of poetry and articles
Netflix’s ‘Next in Fashion’ almost puts the pins and plates together.
Will Erb’s representation ever be equitable? To see a gay man confidently talk about his Erb’s Palsy on one of the largest media platforms of this generation is BEYOND! Let me tell you, I was in actual *tears* when this segment came across my screen while washing up: Erb’s Palsy, as Qaysean explains: “It’s limited…
Para-lanes
(; The strikes are fast-approaching to no defined extreme, but I’m already bowled down celebrating on the screens –that read more like departure boards above – a runway barriered from – all the alternate-optioned lanes who *might*’ve score tens across the table, straight A-stars & stiff Estrellas [crossed]X-ed each box along the set / Inflated…
Guy A. Forster-Pearce 