Shameless: Poems

Shame thrives in silence. This anthology gently invites us out of that isolation. SHAME/less brings together forty-nine poems by forty poets from across the world in a collection that moves, with honesty and tenderness, from shame to shedding.

These poems speak the things we have learned to keep quiet. They sit with inherited wounds and bodily discomfort, with cultural expectations and the silent weight of not-quite-fitting. They find the absurd and even the comic in our most human moments of embarrassment. Some poems simply hold space for the unspeakable, others move towards resistance, release and recognition.

To read SHAME/less is to be reminded that your story has been carried by others too — in different languages, different bodies, different corners of the world.