Praise for “Pick Up Your Feelings”:

Christopher Lloyd’s sensitive, voice-driven poems explore desire and disruption: “you make this other world,” he writes, “to hide in faceless”. In lightly turning stanzas or in seductive columns of prose, these poems seek out a self - concealed and revealed, gorgeously, unforgettably, by masks and screens.”

Richie Hofmann

Pick Up Your Feelings meditates on the multiple fictions that we compose into a life now mediated more than ever by algorithm - the work of these poems then is to “make this other world to live in”, real and tender as it can be.

Travis Chi Wing Lau

In this collection, Christopher Lloyd takes us to a world where feelings are sacred, the body is held close, and modern-day city living is played out alongside the ever-present power of the planets and the stars. From horoscope apps to the anxieties of plant parenthood, this is a true collection of the Millennial age, where relationship anxiety and the welcoming of Scorpio season sit side by side –sometimes comfortably, sometimes not.

Bridget Minamore

We’re thrilled to announce the new pamphlet from UK poet, writer, and academic Christopher Lloyd.

Published this coming April, ”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.

Buy at the link below! And listen to Chris’ Spotify playlist for the book here too.