Gregory Woods

Longlisted for the Polari Book Prize 2022Gregory Woods is the leading British critic and historian of gay literature. He has published five previous Carcanet poetry collections, the first being We Have The Melon (1992). Ten years in the making, Records of an Incitement to Silence revisits many of the original themes, but here Woods brings them closer to the endgame.The sequence of stripped-down, unrhymed sonnets, and the longer poems that accentuate it, suggest a missing narrative: the growth of the individual in a world of upheaval, the search for and loss of love, the formation of memories, the limits of what can truthfully be said, the traces we leave and the chance of their survival.One of my creative habits, Woods writes, is the wringing-out of a single form until its bone dry: the unrhymed sonnets; the monosyllabic syllabics of the long poem Hat Reef Loud; the incompatible yoking-together of iambic pentameter and dactylic trimeter in the long poem No Title Yet. His formal stringency intensifies the poems emotional and erotic charge, their celebration and their plaint.

An Ordinary Dog is a carnival of clashing forms and tones, all deployed with a cool wit and technical precision. They bear sceptical witness to - what? To the affecting ordinariness of human needs, to the vanity of human wishes. Woods writes about desire: sacred and profane, serene and frantic, refined and grubby - often betrayed by cussedness, always complicated by external events. Looking back to times of crisis when history is endured and re-invented, An Ordinary Dog explores where myth degenerates into faith and reason falters. The mood veers between equanimity and desperation; the focus between detachment and intimate involvement.

El presente libro se ocupa de modo extraordinariamente amplio de la literatura gay masculina a través de culturas y lenguas desde la Antigüedad hasta nuestros días. De carácter deliberadamente polémi

En 'Homintern. Cómo la cultura LGTB liberó al mundo moderno', Gregory Woods nos propone un recorrido que atraviesa continentes, idiomas y casi un siglo para mostrarnos las formas en las que el colectivo LGTB ha ayudado a moldear la cultura occidental. Partiendo del Londres de finales del XIX para ir despues al Paris de los años 20, al Berlin de los 30 y al Nueva York de los 50 hasta llegar a las revueltas de Stonewall, este libro dibuja un retrato excepcional de la cultura LGTB del siglo XX y de aquellos y aquellas que, ademas de redefinirse a si mismos, cambiaron el curso de la historia.