It starts with the Buggery Act of 1533. Or perhaps the arrest of Eleanor Rykener. Or perhaps the execution of James Pratt and John Smith. The truism goes that queer people have always been here, but for as long as there have been written records of us those records have dealt with our suppression, criminalisation, and punishment. How can we construct a sense of our own history when its wilful erasure has been violently enacted time and time again across the centuries? 

Composed over a ten year period, Noises Again is a hugely ambitious and staggeringly complex literary collage that blurs the lines between literature and visual art. Stringing together scraps of text from history books and pornographic novels, newspaper clippings and love letters, drunk sexts and court records, JD Howse explores the buried, obscure ephemera of gay history and returns with a text by turns violent, tragic, erotic, and confounding. This is a truly singular book, defying characterisation, description, and logic. 

OUR POETS
JD Howse is a writer who works across poetry, prose, and collage. His debut collection Just Meat Not God was published in 2022 and he has published a number of pamphlets and artist’s books. He has a BA in English and an MA in Creative Writing from Royal Holloway, University of London, and is the curator of Permeable Barrier. 

Azad Ashim Sharma is the director of the87press and Editor at Philosophy and Global Affairs, the CLR James Journal, and The Hythe Review. He is a PhD Candidate in English and Humanities at Birkbeck College, University of London. He is the author of three poetry collections, most recently, Boiled Owls (Nightboat Books / Out-Spoken Press, 2024) which was shortlisted for the Jhalak Poetry Prize. His second collection Ergastulum: Vignettes of Lost Time (Broken Sleep Books, 2022) was the recipient of the Caribbean Philosophical Association’s Guillén Award. In July 2025, Azad was inaugurated as the Poet Laureate of the Caribbean Philosophical Association. He lives in South London.

Calliope Michail is a poet and translator, currently undertaking a PhD at King’s College, London. She is the Poetry Editor of Stillpoint Journal, and her work has appeared in various publications.

VJ René is the author of two pamphlets of poetry, Scavengers (Salo Press, 2021) and HYDRA (Marble Poetry, 2020). Recent critical and creative works appear in Victorian Popular Fictions Journal, Forum Journal and the Australasian Journal of Victorian Studies.​

Oliver Zarandi is a writer and filmmaker. His debut, Soft Fruit In The Sun (Hexus Press), was described as being like ‘getting a hug from David Cronenberg.’ His follow-up, Body Horror, was shortlisted for the Prototype Prize in 2024. He is currently in development on his first film, Skinny Boy.

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