Reading List: Pick Up Your Feelings by Chris Lloyd
Chris Lloyd is an associate professor of learning and teaching at the University of Hertfordshire. Chris also writes poetry and short stories – his first poetry pamphlet is Pick Up Your Feelings.
Pick Up Your Feelings uses form and the idea of self to delve into modern queerness, relationships, friendships and the power of Scorpios. An unabashedly emotional collection of poems that bounce from the LA Hills to the Paris metro via dating apps and DMs.
As well as looking at modern relationships, at the core of the book are Christopher’s “alt” poems, poems that aim to decipher our coded digital and physical identities to find the emotional truth within.
Chris Lloyd on How To Date Men
For our podcast, How To Date Men, we caught up with Chris Lloyd for a behind-the-scenes look his debut poetry pamphlet.
In the conversation, we talk about deciphering desire in the digital age, how our online life shapes our experience of the world, and why poetry is a good medium for exploring the contemporary queer experience.