WINNER OF THE T S ELIOT PRIZE 2021. The female body is a political space. C+nto enters the private lives of women from the butch counterculture, telling the inside story of the protests they led in the '90s to reclaim their bodies as their own - their difficult balance between survival and self-expression. History, magic, rebellion, party and sermon vibrate through Joelle Taylor's cantos to uncover these underground communities forged by women. Part-memoir and part-conjecture, Taylor explores sexuality and gender in poetry that is lyrical, expansive, imagistic, epic and intimate. C+nto is a love poem, a riot, a late night, and an honouring.
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Weight: 200g
Dimensions: 128 x 198mm
Publication Date: 01 Jun 2021
Publisher: Saqi Books
Publication City/Country: United Kingdom
Language: English
ISBN13: 9781908906489
About Joelle Taylor
Joelle Taylor is an award-winning poet playwright and author. A fellow of the Royal Society of Literature and a Saboteur Spoken Word Artist of the Year (2022) Taylor is the host and co-curator of Out-Spoken the UKs premier poetry and music club currently resident at the Southbank Centre. A former UK slam champion she founded SLAMbassadors the UKs youth slam championships in 2001 and was its Artistic Director and National Coach until 2018. Taylor is the author of three plays a forthcoming novel and four poetry collections including C+nto & Othered Poems which won the 2021 T. S. Eliot Prize and was longlisted for the 2021 Ondaatje Prize. Her documentary Butch was recently featured on BBC Radio 4.