RAINBOW BOOKS

Books by Local Queer Authors, Poets,
and Publishers

People of the Rock

SOPHIA KELLY
A hopeful story of time-travelling lesbians, quantum entanglement and goats.
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Weekend - a novel

JANE EATON HAMILTON
Prize-winning writer Eaton Hamilton's novel explores the complexities of contemporary queer love.
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What the Mouth Wants

MONICA MENEGHETTI
This mouthwatering, intimate, and sensual memoir traces Monica Meneghetti’s unique life journey through her relationship with food, family and love.
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Burning Sugar - Poems

CICELY BELLE BLAIN
Activist and poet Cicely Belle Blain describes themselves as a Black/mixed, queer femme from London now living on the traditional lands of the Musqueam, Squamish and Tsleil-Waututh peoples.
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It Was Never Going To Be OK

JAYE SIMPSON
A collection of poetry and prose exploring the intimacies of understanding intergenerational trauma, Indigeneity and queerness, while breaking down the limitations of sexual understanding as a trans woman.
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Hider / Seeker

JEN CURRIN
The twenty stories chart the complex relationships of LGBTQ+ characters as they navigate spirituality, sometimes addiction, and always, the never-ending tides of change.
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Born Sacred - Poems for Palestine

SMOKII SUMAC
A journalistic poetry collection reflecting on Palestinian and Indigenous solidarities, genocides, life, and liberation.
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The Gospel of Breaking

JILLIAN CHRISTMAS
Befitting someone who speaks things into being, Christmas extracts from family history, queer lineage, and the political landscape of a racialized life to create a rich, softly defiant collection of poems.
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