Selected poems
"yes!!!" in World Dreem II (Sincere Corkscrew, out July 2026)
"frankie and I planned it all . . ." (Sincere Corkscrew, out July 2026)
"No, it's not a gift" in Hospitality Playbook (Sleepy Press, 2026)
"Black Leather with Paisley Hankies" in Leatherdyke Love Letters (DykeHouse Press, 2026)
"Ache!" in Letters of No (Sleepy Press, 2025)
"Butch/Battery/Electric: Into the Hole!" on SPAM Plaza (2025)
"medical tourism" in Dyke Rage (DykeHouse Press, 2024)
"The Last Real Bulldagger in America" in Powders 5 (2023)
"Wertheimpark" in Dyke Love (DykeHouse Press, 2023)
"a crowd of butch women all at ease with each other" in Dyke Love (DykeHouse Press, 2023)
"Winter Lovin'" in Gutter 28 (2022)
The Queen of Cups and Other Poems (SPAM, 2022)
"Literature about contemporary urban Aberdeen is long overdue - here, Parel Joy's poems express that strange grey cold sometimes-sparkling city through queerness, dykedom, a focus on utopic little moments where a lesbian commune can bake 'sourdough loaves the size of a room.' These are poems strung between place and form, Amsterdam and Aberdeen, Dutch and Scots-informed English, a global displacement backlit by the whorls of late-capitalist affect. But also, critically, tenderness; care. A cottagecore unlimited." -Ian Macartney
"Joy's poetry displays a playfulness with language; form; and convention. These poems dance as you read them, evolve in their meanings as you clumsily translate in real-time or trip across the page in beguiling and strange format choices. The end result of these poems is a textured painting of a range of experience. Joy's pamphlet is a tender dissection of queer love, loss, and desire and a sterling break into the world of poetic publishing." -Tom Byam Shaw for Leopard Arts.
