C+nto - & Othered Poems (Taylor Joelle)(Paperback / softback)

WINNER OF THE T. S. ELIOT PRIZE 2021
LONGLISTED FOR THE POLARI BOOK PRIZE 2022

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
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