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Works by a variety of GAW members
Edited by Jeffrey Doorn
Published: 2023
The places we remember as significant in our lives helped shape who we are and how we relate to the world.
This anthology of nineteen prose, and poetry pieces by fourteen authors, recollects such places now lost, either though physical alteration, changed character, redevelopment or demolition.
Some may remain but are no longer gay or gay-friendly, others replaced by online platforms. It is important to recall and record these markers of our history and heritage. They form part of our legacy to younger and future generations.
ISBN 978-1-90-4585-94-7
Paperback, 132 pages, £7.99
Edited by John Dixon & Jeffrey Doorn.
Seventy-five works by thirty authors – a full box indeed!
Edited by Michael Harth.
Published: 2012
This selection of 28 titles by eighteen different authors covers a variety of forms: short stories, excerpts from novels, work in progress, some non-fiction and the odd poem.
The majority have a decidedly gay or lesbian outlook, with a variety of settings, genres and time-scales, but the emphasis throughout is on entertainment.
“You know, those pills, the ones they’ve just invented that turn gay people straight.”
Whose Pills
“How do you come to know he’s gay?’ I wanted to know, worried for my son’s moral welfare, even though certain signs have made me feel it’s something of a lost cause.”
Next Door
“I had every intention of jumping. Why else would I have been all the way up there?”
Heads You Win
“Did you hear that?” Elaine whispered. “Did you hear what that Oscar Wilde said?”
A Queens’ Night Out
“The zombie obeyed her slowly, frowning slightly in a puzzled way but moving with surprising grace. My God, and after all I paid for him, Miss Silver exclaimed.”
Caveat Emptor
“I’ve never actually faked an orgasm, but I’ll admit to overacting on occasions.”
Bad Sex
“You were an officer, I bet?”
‘Yes, but I was friendly with the crew.”
The Mad Hatters
“No,” said Alistair, “the pleasure gardens tempted me. Blond, twenty-two, torn jeans. Need I go on?”
On Hold
“So on his next visit, when his attention was distracted by fleshly matters, Madame H kindly arranged to have him slipped a Mickey Finn.”
Penance
“One of the men had dressed as Santa and all had gone well as he circled the room until he reached our ladies who, as if they had taken him for a stripper, urged him to get them off.”
Drop-In and Come Out
ISBN: 978 1 904585 473
Paperback, 208 pages, £7.99
Collections by a single writer
By Michael Harth & edited by John Dixon and Jeffrey Doorn
Published: 2019
By John Dixon
Published: 2013
Nine stories, varied topics, forms and lengths.
The Carrier Bag is a Bridport prize-winning story, of which Margaret Drabble said “A tale for our time, which satirically contrasts a wine bar squash playing set with a representative member of the underclass. A fine use of dialogue here, from a writer who has his ear to the ground.”
In Across the Corridor - and Down a Bit a knowing holiday diarist unfailingly gets it wrong. Little Gems is a mother’s monologue on her three daughters. The Untoward Invention is a political satire telling how an invention of potential use in waste disposal is seconded by the War Ministry.
In Coping a parent reacts to a marriage guidance counsellor’s trite recommendations. The Heights concerns a Christmas postman who is given a round no one else wants. Well our feeble frame tells of the Damascus Road incidents of a middle-aged woman on holiday in Jordan.
Consequences asks if apparent results are so easily traceable to assumed causes and is the erratic diary confessions of an employee losing control.
ISBN: 978 1 904585 40 4
Paperback, 200 pages, £6.99
By Martin Foreman
Sometimes you sit, watch the trains, the sunset, the rain.
Sometimes you talk. Tell your story if you’ve a mind to.
Trouble is, memory changes things.
Things you want to forget.
Things you want to remember that never happened.
Happens to everybody. Gets so, nobody’s story’s true.
Not yours, not mine. But it’s all we got.
By Ian Stewart
Published: 2002
Ajax is back home on the dawn-flooded doorstep. Glare rising sun and crisp golden glow radiating the frightening, unpredictable barrage of whooshing lorries and traffic.
All of a sudden, it’s that man dimly-remembered out of some forgotten morning’s swirl of the ordinary, a bearded face seen but once on an early bus.
Ajax blunts a noble tradition, stoner Jeff spots flaws in the mad professor’s scheme, Sharon lives her Art and a sickly lad wanks himself to immunity in these cinematic, themed stories, deftly reckoned by a fellow who’s well been around.
“Ian Stewart‘s Cocksuckery is far more thoughtful than its title might suggest. His writing is unusual with surreal twists and an introversion that is both intimate and seductive.”
Gay Times
ISBN: 978 0 9525964 4 8
e-book only, £2.99
By Michael Harth
“It’s his attributes, that’s what it is. When you get to my age, it becomes important.”
Male au-pairs, sex services for OAPs, abduction by aliens, a sex contest between two schoolboys, and a picnic that goes wrong, are among the themes in this light-hearted, picaresque collection of stories.
ISBN: 978 0 9525964 3 1
Paperback, 148 pages, £6.99
Poems by a single writer
By Michael Harth & edited by John Dixon and Jeffrey Doorn
Michael Harth (1926-2016) was a prolific writer in several genres, songs, revues, a full-length novel, an appreciation of pianist/composer Billy Mayerl, even a science fiction musical as well as three volumes of short stories.
His lyrics are clever, quirky, often satirical. This book presents 36 of his previously unpublished song lyrics. A companion collection of short stories was published in 2019.
ISBN 978-1-904585-91-6
Paperback, 84 pages £6.95
By Jeremy Kingston
Published: 2001
This is Jeremy Kingston’s fourth collection of poems, and the second published by Paradise Press.
Topics cover childhood and family memories and relationships straight and gay. Jeremy reads new interpretations into photos, paintings, and myth.
He deals with politics, war, and religion, always quizzically and often using some little-known fact or unusual angle to make a telling and thought-provoking point.
A theatre critic on The Times for more than 20 years, two of his plays were performed in the West End. He has written two novels and two children’s book.
His poems appeared in the Paradise Press anthologies, Coming Clean and A Boxful of Ideas and his previous volume, Risking It, was also published by Paradise Press.