Biathanatos, edited by Ernest W. Sullivan II (Newark: University of Delaware Press / London: Associated University Presses, 1984). Out of the twelve stories my favourites were Penguins by Simon James Green, illustrated by Alice Oseman; The instructor by Jess Vallance, illustated by Kate Alizadeh; The other team by Micheal Lee Richardson, illustrated by David Roberts. This enigmatic poem uses the metaphor of an early morning horse-ride to explore numerous shifting notions of identity.

Anne Ferry, All in War with Time: Love Poetry of Shakespeare, Donne, Jonson, Marvell (Cambridge, Mass.: Harvard University Press, 1975). Three months before he was born the Romanian dictator and his wife were executed before a firing squad. To this day his mother still talks about it. Douglas L. Peterson, The English Lyric from Wyatt to Donne (Princeton: Princeton University Press, 1967). Charles Monroe Coffin, John Donne and the New Philosophy (New York: Columbia University Press, 1937). Britten's "Death, be not proud" — English composer Benjamin Britten set a number of Donne's "Holy Sonnets" to music. Here is a performance of "Death, be not proud."As he approached his twenty-third birthday, for some reason he felt that he was male. And he saw it wasn’t bad. Louis I. Bredvold, "The Naturalism of Donne in Relation to Some Renaissance Traditions," Journal of English and Germanic Philology, 22, no. 4 (1923): 471-502. While I did love what this anthology IS, and I wouldn't want to rate it on what it ISN'T, I can't help but feel disappointed that there wasn't any aro and/or ace rep. Since this book is promoted as being super inclusive, I was really hoping to have these identities represented. I thought it was a real shame that this wasn't the case. What I have seen: gay/lesbian, bisexual, transgender/non-binary rep. And that's all really great! But yeah, it could definitely have been more inclusive! Admittedly though, I was happy to see an aro/ace artist contribute to this, so I don't want to come down on it too harshly. I justed wanted to hopefully help manage people's expectations. This selection, entitled, "The Paradoxical Commandments", was written by Kent M. Keith in 1968 when he was a 19 year old Harvard Student. Since then, it has been quoted by millions and even mistakenly attributed to Mother Teresa who had a version hung as a poem on a wall in her Children's Home in Calcutta. The text contains 10 commandments. The theme and the paradox is to persevere in doing good for humanity and acting with integrity even if your efforts aren't appreciated.

I rated most of the pieces of fiction 4 or 5 stars and only one 3 stars, which just shows I really enjoyed all of the stories. My average rating (of all the stories) was approximately 4.2, so 4 stars. My favourites were the ones by Cynthia So, Tanya Byrne, Karen Lawler, Moïra Fowley-Doyle and Dean Atta (which I mentioned before). These authors in special are ones I'm going to look out for in the future, since I really enjoyed their writing. It’s not directly queer or about sexuality, but when they chose it, it immediately gave me a sense of epiphany,” said Fan. “And of course it is about the body and it is about how we experience ourselves being naked.” Queen of Teen 2014 Juno Dawson is the multi award-winning author of six novels for young adults. In 2016, she authored the best-selling World Book Day title: SPOT THE DIFFERENCE. They added: “It will be interesting to see what poets today capture of this moment and how things shift in 10 or 20 years.”

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The poem is often viewed as a reflection of Plath’s early morning poetry-writing ritual in the months leading up to her death: she would wake, write poetry, and then spend the rest of the day employed in household chores.